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...Leno at 10 will be a memory. With that, NBC showed itself to be in the same boat as the rest of Big Media - caught between an old business model that is no longer working and a new one that hasn't yet been invented...
...experiment was the most radical attempt to change the TV business model, but it wasn't the only one. Fox recently got Time Warner Cable to agree to pay to retransmit Fox's free over-the-air signal, suggesting that broadcasters could someday operate more like cable channels (with cable subscribers paying for it). Reality shows and newsmagazines are, like the Leno show, devices to fill prime time on the cheap - and they'll fill some of the vacuum left by Leno...
Delta, which was once the model of civility in this industry, has lately made noises about regaining some of that lost élan, but antagonizing your passengers doesn't seem like the way to do it. Continental should know better. If it's as good an airline as it keeps saying it is, customers should be willing to pay more for the privilege. Give yourself a raise, Continental, if you think you've earned...
Ankit Mehra stops in front of a Tata Nano and waits for the crowd to clear. When it thins, the 22-year-old M.B.A. student aims his camera phone at a neon green model of the world's cheapest car and takes a photo. Mehra sees the appeal of the small, sleek car that has gained almost celebrity status in India, but his heart is set on something a bit grander in the New Delhi Auto Expo showroom - the upmarket Audi Q7. (Watch a video on owning a Nano...
...journalist Ethan Watters. He traces how conditions first widely diagnosed in the U.S., such as anorexia and PTSD, have spread abroad "with the speed of contagious diseases." The growth of Big Pharma and the widespread adoption of U.S. health standards have made the ailing American psyche the primary diagnostic model. By 2008, for example, GlaxoSmithKline was selling over $1 billion worth of Paxil a year to the Japanese, who didn't know they had a problem with depression until drug marketers informed them. Though Watters' indignation can be wearying at times, he is on to something worth pondering...