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...spread to 177 countries worldwide and that flu activity remains widespread in 46 U.S. states. The latest weekly report from the World Health Organization only accounts for 440,000 laboratory confirmed cases of pandemic H1N1 influenza through the end of October throughout the globe, admitting that the case count is likely to be significantly lower than the actual number of cases as “many countries have stopped counting individual cases...
...Your book suggests a lot of the mistakes the media have made are because of the moguls. Media moguls are a little like investment bankers, and I say this with humility. Investment bankers always have No. 1 market share because they only count the deals that they do. Similarly media moguls look like geniuses because they only talk about the deals that went well. The best example of that is when [News Corp. CEO Rupert] Murdoch bought MySpace - and it's rumored Tom Freston lost his job [as Viacom CEO] over not buying it - everyone talked about MySpace...
...question that the Internet has made the newspaper business tougher than it was before. But newspapers used to be so profitable, it made newspaper managers terribly lazy. Even today the margins at most small local newspapers are still 20%. McClatchy is 20%, Lee is 20% and Gannett, if you count out USA Today, is 20%. At some point this may all change, but it's much harder to kill that kind of franchise...
...drastic steps the government has taken. Although national health officials have cited 33 flu deaths in support of the measure, they have not definitively specified how many of these deaths were a result of swine flu and how many were a result of other viruses. Additionally, to put this count in perspective, the Centers for Disease Control reported 292 swine flu deaths in the U.S. from just August 30 to October 10, 2009. Ukraine’s anti-swine flu measures are also markedly more extreme than those of neighboring Russia and Poland...
Most importantly, however, the MacManuses enjoy the unspoken support of the Boston Police Department, which falls all over itself to keep them safe and out of jail as the body count rises. Taking the place of morally conflicted FBI Special Agent Paul Smecker (Willem Dafoe) is his protegé Eunice Bloom (Julie Benz), a sassy southerner who stalks the city in Christian Louboutin stilettos and keeps her gun in a leather holster draped about her svelte waistline. Sharing her mentor’s clairvoyant crime detection abilities, she manages to simultaneously anger and entice her male coworkers while conjuring...