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Times to Globe: It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp!

By Rory O'Connor

Now The Times is demanding still more -- $20 million in wage and benefits concessions from members of the Globe's unions - even as top executives like Sulzberger issue themselves beaucoup bucks in bonuses, and refuse to comment on how the other $65 million the paper will lose this year will be made up.

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Can The Globe Survive Online Only? Outlook Is Dicey

By Thomas F. Mulvoy Jr., Dorchester Reporter Boston.com, which includes a complete free online version of the Globe as one of its offerings, is seeing its readership continue to grow. Given this, the key question for the NY Times Co. and the Globe seems clear: can a large-circulation metro newspaper attract enough advertising to make it a profitable online-only site offering original-source news?

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2020 Vision: What's Next For News

By Daniel Conover, xark.typepad.com Now might be a good time to stake out some useful predictions about the future of American journalism to 2020.

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Bridging The Rural Digital Divide: FCC Starts Work On National Broadband Strategy

By Democracy Now The FCC begins work on a yearlong national broadband strategy to bring high-speed broadband internet into every American home. Amy Goodman speaks with Wally Bowen, executive director of the Mountain Area Information Network in Asheville.

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'Pirates' Strike A U.S. Ship Owned By A Pentagon Contractor, But Is The Media Telling The Whole Story?

By Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet There's more to the story of rising "pirate" attacks...

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Rick Sanchez: Fox News Contributing To Gun Violence

CNN's Rick Sanchez notes the rise of Fox style crazyfaced paranoia and the uptick in gun violence, and feels that there's a connection worth exploring...
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Organizing For America: Can it Transform Politics? Unsustainable Economy

Barack Obama's "Organizing For America:" What is its potential? | More Troops Going In Iraq Than Coming Out | Update on Wars | Financial Theories and Updates | A View From Argentina | Historian Howard Zinn on Class | More

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