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Current market capitalization: $1.32 Billion.
They’re running on empty, captain!
[s/b “Journalism Eats Away at Democracy”]
My Industry Is Hemorrhaging:
Journalism Layoffs Eat Away at the Watchdog of Democracy
by Olivia Loyd
Women’s International Perspective
January 30, 2009
http://thewip.net/contributors/2009/01/my_industry_is_hemorrhaging_jo.html
These losses might get serious one of these days.
I know it is easy to beat on the media, but wanted to pass this along from the Ames (Iowa) Trib. And as an aside, I think the Ames Trib is actually generally rather fair minded. Their endorsements in November crossed party lines, and were for the most part reasonable. Of course I skip most of the main section, because there is a lot of claptrap from the AP, which deserves the scorn of the Freepers. They are owned by the Omaha World-Herald, which from my experience, the Western Iowa edition may be the best “Iowa” paper out there. Anyway, how about this from their Cheers and Jeers section....
(picture of a thumbs down) To Tom Harkin. Our esteemed senator said Thursday the $825 billion stimulus bill that was passed by the US House may be too small. That’s right. Too small. We can’t imagine $825 billion isn’t able to stimulate something. The stimulus bill seems to include too much money earmarked for Democratic special interests, such as $4.19 billion for ACORN. Senator, can you explain just how is ACORN going to stimulate the economy? Maybe if Democrats would spread the money to all instead of just using to to pay off those who helped get President Obama elected, it would be better received.
I wish some rich guy would buy just one newspaper somewhere and fill it with conservative bias just to watch what would happen. Could be a ton of fun....but expensive.