Weird Porn and a Can of Beer for Free. A Protocol of Mathias Döpfner’s and Arianna Huffington’s Debate on the Future of Journalism

***UPDATED*** So, Arianna Huffington, founder of the influential Web site Huffington Post, and Mathias Döpfner, chairman of Germany’s leading newspaper publisher Axel Springer Verlag, were debating the future of journalism. Naturally, they clashed over hot button issues such as paid content. Go figure! Still, it’s a very pleasurable debate between two gifted orators with interesting accents and even more interesting metaphors and hence worth watching — and if you haven’t done so yet, here it is:

If you don’t have the time to watch the whole thing, or if you can’t stand the moderator, here’s the first part of my very rough minute-to-minute protocol. I’ll highlight some quotes that I thought were remarkable and add some little-qualified comments of my own: