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...first major overseas trip as president, Barack Obama has a G-20 meeting, a NATO summit and a roundtable discussion in a Muslim country on the itinerary. But at a morning briefing the day before his departure - as reporters focused on the ouster of General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner - Press Secretary Robert Gibbs didn't field a single question about the President's trip. It was a sign of how ubiquitous and rote presidential foreign travel has become. (See the 10 Ideas Changing the World Right...
...have arrived at the stockyard, burdened with all the inefficiencies that usually plague the once-plump. Newspaper dynasties, as aristocratic a lot as can be found on this continent, extracted generous dividends for generations and set up dual-class shareholding structures that let them enjoy all the trappings of press barony without the requisite skin in the game. Let us eulogize them respectfully and free up journalistic talent for sustainable models of news creation...
...There is no reason, whether out of nostalgia or fear of change, why newspapers should bear anything less than the full court press that Internet news outlets, search engines, and other new competitors are able to apply. The future of reporting the news appears in all likelihood to be an exciting and modern tale, complete with a rich vocabulary teeming with the neologisms of a new age: Blogs, wikis, feeds, and tweets come readily to mind...
...This destruction and rebirth in the news business is not the tragic passing of a golden era, the frightening end of high-quality journalistic output, or the downright terrifying onset of an epoch of public corruption unchecked by an active press. The talent that enters the industry will be the very same; their desire to build reputation and trust will continue. Their principles and standards of conduct, never perfect and always human, will carry over into the new economy. Even the customers of the news—citizens desirous of being well informed or requiring certain information—will...
Cultural/geographical/ethnic/gender/diversity: the “most” diverse class Harvard has seen (only to be defeated by the classes of 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017… and infinitely on…it's pretty much an admissions press release staple...