With Rupert Murdoch‘s British newspaper News Of The World printing its last edition today, Christiane Amanpour assembled a panel on This Week to discuss what implications the phone hacking scandal might have on the News Corp. media empire. CourtTV founder Steve Brill suggested that even if it turns out that knowledge of the criminal activity only existed at the editorial level, he still thinks it is likely that Murdoch’s FCC licenses to operate television stations in this country will be challenged.

Steve Brill, founder of CourtTV and American Lawyer magazine, found it rather humorous that the Daily Beast would feature Marcia Clark — the head prosecutor in the infamous case against O.J. Simpson — as an expert analyst of the Casey Anthony trial.

Vivian Schiller is the president and CEO of National Public Radio, which she joined at the end of 2008 after seven years with The New York Times Co., where she served most recently as SVP and General Manager of NYTimes.com. During her tenure at the Times, she oversaw a complete overhaul of the paper’s website and dismantled TimesSelect, an early attempt at charging for content online. Schiller’s leadership at NPR has also meant a redesigned website. Earlier this week, Schiller came to New York to participate in a debate with Journalism Online founder Steve Brill — “The Great Digital Debate: Free vs. Paid Content Online.” Now she answers our 5QQ — Five Quick Questions.

After years of being accused of playing the role of all four horsemen in the apocalypse of tradition media, Google has just whipped up a feature that may prove to be the answer to paid content newspapers have been desperate for.

Stupid. The definition of stupidity. Idiotic. Beyond belief. A Disaster. That’s what Steve Brill thinks of media outlets who pass out their wares for free on the web. But lucky for them, all those stupidiotic giveaways will begin to give way to plausible subscription models once Journalism Online is up and running this fall. The engine will provide “one simple way to be a content consumer,” and help newspapers and magazines, you know, make money again.