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http://www.slate.com/id/2287526/pagenum/all/
What’s Not Hot? Newsweek.
Editor Tina Brown lays an egg in her redesign.

http://orrenmedia.com/2011/03/07/paywall-ho/
It’s official– the Dallas Morning News paywall goes live tomorrow

http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/media/e3ic299cdffb5a8ed0b80da9feaebe93c3d
Squall Hits ‘The Atlantic’
Andrew Sullivan’s exit means big traffic loss for site

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2011/03/radar-exclusive-charlie-sheen-negotiations-with-hdnet-boss-mark-cuban-tv
RADAR EXCLUSIVE: Charlie Sheen In Negotiations With HDNet Boss Mark Cuban, TV Billionaire Says ‘It Would Be A Great Show’

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-0307-tribune-questions-20110306,0,3552773.story
Tribune Co. bankruptcy nearing finish line

http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424052970204434504576180581507933082.html
Can the New York Times Paper Over Its Problems?

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http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/03/who-owns-newspaper-companies-the-banks-funds-and-investors-and-their-big-slices-of-the-industry/
Who owns newspaper companies? The banks, funds, and investors and their (big) slices of the industry

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/05/AR2011030504160.html
As telecom industry evolves, success of Netflix is its biggest threat

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“But the company [NYT] has struggled to make enough money from its digital operations to stem the decline in print advertising ...”

Well, naturally, anyone with a lick of sense knows that it will be impossible to replace print advertising revenues with digital revenues for any print media operation for a plethora of reasons, but mostly because the Internet broke the print media’s publication monopolies, with subscription revenues approaching zero, as well as bringing down the revenue per ad from thousands of dollars to tiny fractions of cents, and in one important case, namely Craigslist, ads are outright free.

The monopoly print media dinosaurs are doomed, and that’s a good thing. A very good thing. Because most have simply become propaganda organs for the Socialist Democrats and the neo-Marxist “progressives”.