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...about 70% of people my age read a newspaper regularly. For people my age now, it's still about the same percentage. But in the Dallas market today, only about 30% of people between 18 and 24 look at a newspaper fairly regularly. That's a 40% gap. That's not good news for the newspaper...
...that their revenue growth is impaired; advertisers are shifting dollars away to newer media. I don't profess the demise of the newspaper industry; there's a time and a need for them. But there are real structural changes going on in the industry. There is a significant pricing gap between new media and old media. The cost to reach 1,000 people is $20 for newspapers, but just $5 for those online. Advertisers definitely have more choices today. Newspapers have a great leg up in terms of having a local sales force that can sell local advertising, and they...
...does the EAC explain this glaring gap in their plan? Apparently, the University will only form a commission to investigate the cost if students express support for spending it. This puts students in an absurdly paradoxical situation, whereby they can only find out the cost they are being asked to support by voting to support...
...order in 2000, tries to maintain black student enrollment at each school between 15% and 50%. After 30 years of school integration, or what Gordon calls "the jelly bean approach" of throwing together children of different colors, the school district has still not been able to close the achievement gap between black and white students. Hence Gordon's motto: "Let's try something different...
...Chase, Md., family therapist specializing in children of divorce. When husband and wife discipline their children differently, she suggests that a parent explain, "Stepdad and I have different values, but I still think my values are good." Over time, though, couples in blended families should try to narrow the gap between their rules...