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Eric Alterman writes the following in the New Yorker about newspapers: Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin’s Courant, it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America’s last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive. Newspaper companies are losing advertisers, [...]
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In his New Yorker article on American newspapers, Eric Alterman asks whether the liberal U.S. news website the Huffington Post is the future of news delivery. From the New Yorker: Almost by accident, however, the owners of the Huffington Post had discovered a formula that capitalized on the problems confronting newspapers in the Internet era, [...]
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From AP via CTV.ca: The Los Angeles Times apologized for using documents that were apparently fabricated in a story implicating associates of Sean “Diddy” Combs in a 1994 assault on rapper Tupac Shakur. “The bottom line is that the documents we relied on should not have been used,” Editor Russ Stanton said in a story [...]
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From the NYT: According to interviews and recent surveys, younger voters tend to be not just consumers of news and current events but conduits as well — sending out e-mailed links and videos to friends and their social networks. And in turn, they rely on friends and online connections for news to come to them. [...]
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From the Globe and Mail: Call it the double-double defence: Would dangerous jihadists take a break from their winter training camp to warm up inside a Tim Hortons? Defence lawyer Michael Moon raises the question in a new motion concerning the so-called Toronto 18 terror trial. Citing previously undisclosed evidence to be presented at trial, [...]
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