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...hold their breath. "No consideration is being given to changing the blackout policy," says NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy. "It has served us well for decades, and we think it would be a mistake to alter it." And as much as some local officials may be griping about it, teams aren't necessarily helping. Some teams that are facing the prospect of blackouts haven't even lowered their ticket prices to entice fans. In Jacksonville, for example, the average general-admission ticket costs $57.34, a 3.7% increase from 2008, according to Team Marketing Report. The average premium seat now costs...
...that the league believes a full house with screaming fans enhances the television-viewing experience. "If you're watching at home and you see a lot of empty seats, you're going to start wondering to yourself, What's wrong with me? Why am I watching this when people aren't showing up?" says Neal Pilson, founder of Pilson Communications, a consulting firm, and the former president of CBS Sports...
...agreement may have appeased U.S. publishers, but their counterparts in Europe, along with some European governments, are up in arms over it. More than half the books scanned and digitized by Google are not of American origin, but European books aren't expressly covered by the settlement. This has raised the fear that Google could sell books that are out of print in the U.S. but not elsewhere to U.S. users without paying European rights holders a penny. "It is clearly discriminatory towards E.U. rights holders," Anne Bergman of the European Federation of Publishers wrote to TIME...
...Well, in fact, speaking of de Tocqueville, there was that Putnam study from a few years ago about bowling alone. I remember somebody rebutted that by saying, people aren't bowling alone, they're playing soccer in groups - you're not looking at the right kind of examples...
...think that how we sustain that is a challenge. How do you - a campaign is a finite moment in time with a very clear objective. Sustaining that so that it now moves forward in ways that aren't as high-profile and aren't - where it's not surrounded by balloons and confetti but has to do more with just the day-to-day work of mentoring a kid or planting a garden - that's I think the challenge that both of us are continually thinking about...