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On Facebook and Twitter, almost no one is a downer (read my tweets for an antidote). Ivor Tossell explores why. From The Globe and Mail: I have no qualms with droll irony. Lord knows, it's all I've got going for me sometimes. But after a while, it becomes impossible to ignore the fact that everybody on [...]
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A survey of U.S. financial journalists finds some believing they dropped the ball on the lead-up to the meltdown, some think negative media reporting could make the recession worse, which leads into the final point of this post — neuronomics. From AP via Google News (posted Thursday): Sixty-two of 100 journalists surveyed by Abrams Research, a [...]
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The Globe and Mail, Canada's premier newspaper, is looking to shed bodies in an attempt to slice operating costs. The move is being blamed on a moribund advertising climate. From The Canadian Press via Google News: The newspaper's publisher and CEO Phillip Crawley told The Canadian Press on Friday that the company will need to cut [...]
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