Old journalism rule: Don’t bother quoting anyone if you can say it better and more clearly yourself.

MoffettNathanson senior analyst Craig Moffett, comparing the dying Comcast-Time Warner Cable deal to an elephant that has been dropped out of an airplane:

At around 10,000 feet, it is technically still alive. But it is falling fast, there’s not much you can do to stop it, and its odds of survival are pretty low when it hits the ground.