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Who gives a rats ass that Woods is top athlete of the decade

Newspapers and AP demonstrate yet again they are dinosaurs

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Mr I'm Checking Outta Here

Woods voted top athlete of the decade reads the big headline. Where are those people at AP coming from – Star Trek 1969?

So the guy was the biggest thing in the past. He just self-destructed on the Internet and in the media in two weeks.

Yesterday’s fish wrap is what newspapers delivery.

Who cares what they think? They are so out of touch.

The best music of 2009, the last decade, the last century. It’s like a contest between the dead and walking dead to report what never was.

Dylan was dissing reporters when he said “You know something is happening but you don’t know what it is, do you Mr. Jones.”

How about living in the here and now.

I’d better check Saturday’s Guardian too see what old music I’m supposed to like.

Networks and newspapers will not filter the news you see

Newspapers are bad for your health

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Nick Fillmore

By Nick Fillmore, www.rabble.ca

Traditional for-profit media, including our daily newspapers, radio and TV news, filter out all kinds of information they don’t want us to get our hands on. This filtering process includes many kinds of stories, including reports that would offend advertisers but, if carried, would alert the public to things such as improper corporate behaviour.

Corporate-owned media also slant the content of stories so that, for instance, some stories paint a negative picture of organized labour, protest groups or some environmental organizations.

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We won`t pay for content get it!

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Internet may kill Saturday delivery of USPS photo: Washington Post

Another study tells the old media newspapers and networks Internet users don`t pay for content

Last week it was Rupert Murdoch putting up a paywall against Google. This week the Globe and Mail, Global and the National Post want us to pay through Kindle for free news.

A new study from Forrester Research, which polled around 4,700 U.S. consumers, 80% of whom indicated they’re unwilling to pay for access to newspaper and magazine articles and other content. ComputerWorld

It is easy to see how big publishers with lots of brick and mortar will struggle to find a new economical model for their business.

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California disability activists arrested for civil disobedience outside Governor Schwarzenegger’s home

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San Francisco Police arrest wheelchair activists at June protest photo Steve Rhodes

Cuts to State home care and disability care programs have activists hitting the streets

Stephen Pate, NJN Network, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, July 20, 2009 with story from IndyBay.org

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Boston Globe Guild rejects $10 million pay cut, NYT threatens 23% cut

In a big game of the Mexican Standoff, Boston Globe Guild members rejected a call by their owner the New York Times for wage and benefit concessions.

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Boston Globe pressures unions – agree or else (illustration Fox News)

As we reported yesterday 10,095 newspaper layoffs this year, Boston Globe votes today, the other unions at the Boston Globe had tentatively come up with $10 million in savings if the Guild approved $10 million.

The Boston Globe is expected to lose $85 million this year without some plan to cut costs. That was of course before the dismal 2nd quarter revenue numbers come out which are expected to be down from the 1st quarter revenues for most major newspapers.
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Publisher of oldest black newspaper tells secret to survival of the black press

125 year old newspaper says serve your community and readers

By Vanessa Rozier NNPA Special Correspondent, St. Louis American

After 125 years of empowering the Black community, the Philadelphia Tribune is nowhere near tired. Led by President and CEO Robert W. Bogle, the Tribune, which celebrated its 125th anniversary last week, has withstood social and economic trials since 1884 -not by being a jack of everything – but a master at serving its community.

”We reflect what our community is and does,” said Bogle in his twentieth year as the Tribune’s publisher. According to him, the key to the newspaper’s longevity is no different than any other newspaper – Black-owned or not. That is to print news and information that empowers its readers.
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