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...Financial Times and the Guardian - and consistently loses about $15 million a year. Lebedev, whose first experience in London was as a KGB agent in the 1980s, offered a characteristically enigmatic response: "Well, either I am a Russian spy, or I am mad, or I believe you can make money out of newspapers...
...Standard after Lebedev purchased it. Rivals have estimated that the move could cost Lebedev about $45 million a year in sales revenue - but it could also boost advertising if it increases readership. In an interview with the Times of London in January, Lebedev was ambiguous: "Let's assume we make the Indy free. You'd affect seriously the business models of other newspapers, and frankly, that's a very important reason [not to do it]." (Read "How to Save Your Newspaper...
...However, observers are unsure that either plan will deliver in the long run. "Going free doesn't make a lot of sense to me - it will provide a short-term publicity boost, and boost to readership, but it doesn't address any of the fundamental problems for newspapers. Print advertising is in decline, because advertisers increasingly believe it is less effective than digital," says George Brock, a professor of journalism at London's City University. Even the 50-pence-a-day model fails to convince Brock, who argues that a price cut works only as part of a long-term...
...wiretaps in which Berlusconi could apparently be heard berating Giancarlo Innocenzi, the head of the independent broadcast regulator, to shut down Annozero. During a November broadcast dealing with alleged mafia ties in Berlusconi's government, the Prime Minister allegedly phoned Innocenzi and exclaimed: "It's obscene. You need to make a concerted effort to push RAI to say, 'Enough. We're shutting everything down,'" according to the transcripts. Berlusconi, who has been placed under investigation by Italian magistrates, calls the accusations that he tried to block the program "ridiculous and grotesque." Innocenzi, too, has denied that he was pressured...
...last month during Bunning's filibuster, that means thousands of Transportation Department workers getting laid off, gaps in unemployment and health coverage for some of the most desperate Americans and bureaucratic nightmares costing millions of dollars for the necessary paperwork to retroactively apply benefits. Bunning and Coburn both make a valid point: it is hypocritical of Dems to not practice what they preach on the deficit, and this would be the fifth unpaid bill to pass thus far this year. But making the point on the backs of the most needy is probably the wrong way to go about...