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IT'S OFFICIAL: 2005 WILL BE the newspaper industry's worst year since the last ad industry recession. And things aren't looking much better for next year either, according to a top Wall Street firm's report on newspaper publishing. "Sadly, 2005 is shaping up as the industry's worst year from a revenue growth perspective since the recession impacted 2001-2002 period," says the report from Goldman Sachs, adding a warning that meaningful growth in 2006 is "very unlikely."

A spit-take scoop from USA Today: CBS arranged for a confidential source to talk with Joe Lockhart, a top aide to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, after the source provided the network with the now-disputed documents about President Bush's service in the Texas National Guard. Lockhart, the former press secretary to President Clinton, said a female producer talked to him about the 60 Minutes program a few days before it aired on Sept. 8. She gave Lockhart a telephone number and asked him to call Bill Burkett, a former Texas National Guard officer who gave CBS the documents. Lockhart couldn't...

Here's a transcript of the CBS taken from my recorded version of SeeBS News tonight. Rather: CBS News, “60 Minutes”, and this reporter drew fire today over our reports that raised questions about President Bush's service record, including whether he followed orders, and whether he fulfilled his obligations to the National Guard. CBS news correspondent Wyatt Andrews reports on the latest attack on the “60 Minutes” story and the latest CBS response. Andrews: Congressional Republicans turned the high heat on CBS News, charging that last week’s revelations about Lieutenant George Bush, which aired on “60 Minutes”, were based on fake...

This is hardly absolute proof, but it is evidence of a forgery: Word processors bump words from one line to the next to allow the most possible writing on a line without causing a word to be broken, and of course, you automatically start the next line, without even noticing this after a while. Typewriters didn't work that way. They cued you to start a new line with a little bell that went off as you approached the end of a line. For anyone who did much typing, this became extremely Pavlovian: the bell went off, and you whacked the...