Afternoon report
* Jon Ralston leaves the Las Vegas Sun to start his own political commentary site. (politico.com)
* John Ellis: CNN devolved from the world’s most important TV news outlet to just another channel to skip over. (the-american-interest.com)
* What recent earnings reports reveal about the state of ad spending. (AP via yahoo.com)
* “Disturbing incident” at the start of today’s Red and Black meeting at the University of Georgia. (collegemediamatters.com)
* “I was fairly committed to not covering Insane Clown Posse … but it was difficult.” (laweekly.com)
* “Kenny the Clown” unwittingly uses Steve Jobs’ stolen iPad. (mercurynews.com)
* Twitter’s API changes will have a real impact on news developers. (niemanlab.org)
* Tess Vigeland will step down as host of “Marketplace Money” in November. (thewrap.com)
* Nashville TV station’s weather report interrupted by demonic face. (hypervocal.com)
* Some news outlets take a prim view of Pussy Riot. (guardian.co.uk)
