buzzmachine.com - 10/9/2008
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Paul Farhi of the Washington Post issues a resounding apologia for journalists in the American Journalism Review, arguing that the fall of newspapers isn’t their fault. Then Roy Greenslade leaps up with a resounding hear! hear! They echo a defense earlier this year from Adrian Monck (who ...
bigpicture.typepad.com - 10/10/2008
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bigpicture.typepad.com —
Two weeks ago Monday, markets traded down 300
points at the open. The sell-off seemed to be...
in anticipation of what was widely considered to be a poorly thought-out bailout plan. As it became clear that the $700 billion package was not going to be ...
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Fix the Credit Problem, Not its Symptoms
traderfeed.blogspot.com - 10/8/2008
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traderfeed.blogspot.com —
It looks like the chart of a fallen
bank, but it's actually the daily price chart of...
the S&P 500 Index futures as of this morning's pre-opening trade. Market history is replete with instances of stock market panics. Since the Great Depression ...
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The Financial Panic of 2008
calculatedrisk.blogspot.com - 10/8/2008
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calculatedrisk.blogspot.com —
When I started this blog (Jan 2005), I
was concerned about excessive speculation in housing and extremely...
loose lending practices. It appeared that housing starts and new home sales would fall significantly. I forecast record foreclosures and ...
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The Adjustment Process
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Why the Huffington Post will never be Vogue
Valleywag Comments —
[image] Most bloggers seem to be mentally competing with the newspaper media model of The New York Times . Were they to visit the average newspaper office, they'd quickly realize what they really want: A glamorous magazine job. That seems to be Arianna Huffington's thinking, too. Gawker writer Ryan Tate has a ...
Why the Huffington Post will never be Vogue
Valleywag Comments —
[image] Most bloggers seem to be mentally competing with the newspaper media model of The New York Times . Were they to visit the average newspaper office, they'd quickly realize what they really want: A glamorous magazine job. That seems to be Arianna Huffington's thinking, too. Gawker writer Ryan Tate has a ...
The Newspaper Crash of 2009... And How You Can Help
Winds of Change.NET —
Could things get much worse for the newspaper industry? After all, right now:
McClatchy's September print advertising sales dropped 23 percent year on year (YOY).
The entire industry is forecast to lose 16.5% of its annual ad revenue from 2007 to 2008.
Q2 industry statistics show overall revenue dropping 13.9%, with a whopping loss of 27% YOY in classified.
Gallup's polling shows that 52% of the American public do not trust news media.
As it turns out, they could get worse, and quite suddenly. ...
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