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...also "economically self-defeating." That was because he believed that good journalism required that a publication's primary duty be to its readers, not to its advertisers. In an advertising-only revenue model, the incentive is perverse. It is also self-defeating, because eventually you will weaken your bond with your readers if you do not feel directly dependent on them for your revenue. When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, Dr. Johnson said, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Journalism's fortnight is upon us, and I suspect that 2009 will be remembered...
...scuzzy brio and made expert use of the artless screen presence of the leading men (one a stunt man, the other a co-creator of parkour). The picture barely broke $1 million at the North American box office, but you can bet the makers of the Bourne and Bond films were watching...
...There will be a Tyson Foods after Dick Bond, a Yahoo! after Jerry Yang. But nobody knows what America's oldest fashion magazine would look like under a new eye. Even more tantalizing, what would become of Anna after Vogue...
Cheney, Dick • moving of own boxes by-and one can only wonder what was in them that required the personal attention of-results in pulled back muscle of • resemblance of to Dr. Strangelove (or Bond villain Blofeld, or Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life) is evoked by farewell appearance in wheelchair of • unhappiness of at Bush's failure to pardon Libby...
...Agarwal points out, this bond is breaking down. "The younger segment, with zero to five years of experience - for them the loyalty factor doesn't work anymore," he says. "They follow the big bucks. I think if they had a choice, a larger percentage [of Satyam employees] would like to bail out." E. Balaji, CEO of Ma Foi Management Consultants, says the uncertainty of the job market may be a deterrent. "People who joined the workforce from roughly 2004 onwards assumed everything would only go up," he says. "They saw real estate, stocks, salaries going up, and forgot that there...