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Obama's stealth campaign has now been exposed by the New Media as just another assault on power by the old-fashioned radical Left, beefed up with race-baiting demagoguery. As a result of constant New Media exposés, the Leftwing media are now discredited and widely distrusted, and teetering on the edge of a death spiral. The New York Times' debt securities now have junk bond status from S&P. The same ideological suicide could happen to the Democratic Party itself. The Obama campaign, with its many incestuous links to "small 'c' communists" and Islamic fascists, could end up discrediting the entire Democratic Party...

DOW JONES NEWSWIRES December 13, 2005 4:42 p.m. As part of a reorganization announced Tuesday, Time Warner Inc.'s Time Inc. unit said it plans to lay off 105 employees, including several senior executives. The job cuts are effective Dec. 31, a Time spokeswoman said. Two members of Time's senior management team -- former CFO Richard Atkinson and advertising-sales chief Jack Haire -- are among those whose jobs will be cut, according to a memo sent to staff by Time Chairman and Chief Executive Ann Moore. Other senior executives leaving the company are Eileen Naughton and David Kieselstein of the parenting...

On Nov. 1, Private Capital Management LP, a large shareholder in numerous newspaper companies, wrote to the management of Knight Ridder asking that the nation's second largest newspaper chain "aggressively pursue the competitive sale of the company." Two days later, two other large shareholders seconded the motion. Shortly thereafter, Knight Ridder announced that it had decided to "explore" alternatives, "including a possible sale of the company." It is axiomatic on Wall Street that bear markets beget consolidation. The bear market in the newspaper industry should foretell a spate of mergers and acquisitions. But what if there are no buyers? This...