The RP’s Weekly Web Gems: The Politics of Media

Time Warner continues to look for ways to bring CNN back to life — at least make it respectably competitive with the other cable nets. [NYT]

The departing public editor at the New York Times wrote in his final column that the paper’s “progressivism” sometimes “bleeds through” in the paper’s reporting. [Column] NYT Executive Editor Jill Abramson sharply rebutted the charges of liberal bias to POLITICO. [Rebuttal]

Barry Diller’s IAC is buying About.com for $300 million. [Forbes]

The death of the homepage: Direct links have many news consumers “coming in the side door,” meaning bypassing the homepages of many news Web sites. [Nieman Journalism Lab]

Twitter paves its path into the future with corporate media partnerships (NBC) and the breaking down of old ones (Instagram and Tumblr). [Gigaom]