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...under with the economy. Just last week, The Christian Science Monitor announced that they would cease daily publication of the newspaper and instead switch to a weekly print format with a heavy online emphasis, making it the most prominent newspaper to end print on such a large scale. Posting net losses, the newspaper just could not sustain the costs of daily print in the wavering economy any longer.Additionally, magazines such as Jane, CosmoGirl, Teen Vogue, Radar, and Condé Nast’s new endeavor, Men’s Vogue, are facing similar struggles with failed advertising objectives, resulting...
...Obama's biggest immediate challenge overseas will be to scale back the 150,000 U.S. troop contingent now in Iraq, and shift some of them to reinforce the 32,000 American soldiers now in Afghanistan. While national-security experts agree such a shift needs to happen, the key question is its timing. If U.S. forces are pulled out of Iraq too soon, U.S. commanders there argue, the fragile gains achieved the over the past 18 months could erode, and ultimately bring on a civil war. Obama has said he would like to pull up to 10,000 troops a month...
...morning after John McCain's defeat, Mark Salter, McCain's closest aide and biographer, sipped coffee in the courtyard of the Biltmore Resort and Spa while explaining why the national political press had assisted Barack Obama. "On top of everything, we had a thumb on the scale," he said, referring to the media's role in refereeing the campaign. "It wasn't right, but it was what it was." (See pictures of John McCain's campaign farewell...
...voters to consider? He would not do it. He would not do it. But we got called racist by Karen Tumulty for a Frank Raines ad. We got called racist by AP for a Bill Ayers ad. So on top of everything, we had a thumb on the scale, on top of everything else. It wasn't right, but it was what...
...tripping over themselves to salute their freshly minted colleague Barack Obama, just as for news anchors across the globe struggling to put Obama's victory into context, only one word seems to do the trick: historic. Repetition of that portentous adjective could have dulled its impact. But the sheer scale of the world's interest - the blanket media coverage; the election-watching parties, some slickly organized, others spontaneous; the fascination that overrode time zones and deep-seated political apathy to keep people glued for hours to radios and televisions and computers and, yes, Twitter - all served as reminders that this...