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That would be the theory posited in a Vanity Fair article coming out next month about poor old Conrad Black's legal troubles. (H/T to Charles Bury via CAJ-L) An excerpt from the Independent story: Assailed by lawsuits and criminal charges and still brooding on the loss of a media empire that was once the third [...]
Fri, January 5 2007 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Japan's boomers and seniors are among the wealthiest citizens in the world. While Japan's media still tries to reach the young and fashionable, they are starting to make special efforts to reach the older crowd too. Some excerpts from the BBC story: The Asahi Shimbun newspaper in Osaka is keen to keep its loyal older readers. [...]
Fri, January 5 2007 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
From an LAT column by Joel Stein, who wishes readers would just piss off and leave him alone (thanks, Kevin!). An excerpt from the Jan. 2 column: (reg req'd) That address on the bottom of this column? That is the pathetic, confused death knell of the once-proud newspaper industry, and I want nothing to do with [...]