Enter
FROM TOP: AP PHOTO/MATT ROURKE; AP PHOTO/KRT VIA AP VIDEO; ALEXANDER KLEIN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
2
3
4
POINTERS
HUFFINGTON
02.23.14
COMCAST-TWC FALLOUT
Experts, media organizations and
consumers continued to speculate this
week about what a Comcast-Time Warner
Cable merger would mean for the future of
Internet and television. If the two top U.S.
cable service providers are combined in
the proposed $42.5 billion takeover deal,
the new megacorporation would control
just under 30 percent of the American TV market and 38 percent of the high-speed
Internet market. Some experts warned that the deal could mean slower speeds for
streaming services like Netflix and Hulu, less innovation when it comes to set-top
boxes, and higher prices for customers. Federal regulators still have to approve the
friendly takeover before it can move forward.
DAMNING
REPORT
The United Nations on Monday released a long-awaited
report on North Korea, finding the authoritarian state is
guilty of human rights violations “without any parallel
in the contemporary world.” The 372-page document
offers a devastating look into the notoriously secretive
country, including allegations of “extermination,
murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape” and
“causing prolonged starvation.” The report has no legal
implications, but it could help push the international
community toward action.
SOCHI: WEEK TWO
At the Winter Olympics this week: U.S. ice
dancers Meryl Davis and Charlie White won
the gold medal, beating their Canadian
training partners with whom they also share a
coach. Alpine ski racer Bode Miller broke down
in tears after his bronze medal-winning run
when a reporter asked him about his brother,
who died in April. And Russia’s hockey team went home empty-handed after losing to Finland,
ending the home team’s hopes that they’d win a gold this year in their national sport.