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...will be inadequate to do so in this one." It's not an audience or credibility problem that confronts today's media, but the "decoupling" of advertising from news. Trends to watch in 2009, it goes on, include desperate and misguided attempts at bankrolling the news industry, including the idea of micro-payments - one-time, monthly or yearly fees for online access, a model that "was already tried and rejected by users early on" - and nonprofit financing, which is doomed to fail because there simply isn't enough funding there to become a sustainable solution. The report's authors instead...
...Beginning with a clip of an Obama speech calling for “a new spirit of patriotism and responsibility,” the video has the idea that we should all make a pledge to do what we can to save our ailing country. Not just any pledge, though—only a “Presidential Pledge” will do. What that means, I’m not quite sure—Moore, for instance, pledged to smile more; Eva Longoria said she’d laugh more; and, best of all, Eva Mendes promised...
...procedures in dealing with hurricanes, the new charter schools, and the new playgrounds. New Orleans faced a dip since Katrina, according to Nagin, “but [New Orleans] has risen every year since. Katrina’s rainbow is in effect,” referring to the idea that with every storm comes a rainbow. Brian C. Smith, a representative of sponsoring law firm WilmerHale, said the mayor’s words were honest and it was inspiring to hear about a city that is coming up after having been through so much. Smith said his firm contributes...
...Their idea got a big boost three days later, during the March 5 oral arguments before the California Supreme Court, which is expected to issue a ruling soon in the case brought by gay couples and others who argue the constitutional amendment passed by voters last fall should be invalidated. Justice Ming Chin asked attorneys for each side whether the idea would solve the legal issues connected to gay marriage - issues that at their core revolve around the question of whether allowing some couples to marry but not others violates constitutional guarantees of equal protection under the law. (Check...
Both sets of lawyers agreed that the idea would resolve the equal-protection issue. Take the state out of the marriage business and then both kinds of couples - straight and gay - would be treated the same. Even Ken Starr, the Pepperdine law dean and former Whitewater independent counsel who argued in favor of Prop 8, agreed that the idea would solve the legal issues, though he said it was a solution that lies outside the legal authority of the court. An attorney for the other side, Michael Maroko, didn't expressly endorse the idea, but he told Chin...