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Rowan has noted, with some angst, the passing of a bill to create a coin to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the creation of the National Aeronautic and Space Adminsitration (NASA). Well, it seems that a lot was going on 50 years ago.
Another commemorative piece of legislation, H.RES.1067, introduced by Representative Joe Courtney, marks the 50th anniversary of the USS Nautilus, a submarine that was the first ocean-going craft to cross the North Pole.
An irony that was not noted in H.RES.1067 is that this year, a boat might be able to cross the North Pole without going beneath the ice. The North Pole is expected to become ice-free for the first time in historical memory.
Today’s update by the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS) describes “a continuation of dramatic sea ice loss.” How dramatic? Well, some models suggest that the loss will be less dramatic than what occurred last year. Other models suggest that the loss of ice will be more dramatic. We’ll have to wait and see.
Photographs from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show that the melt at the North Pole has already begun, however. The following picture was taken just a few hours ago. The water it shows is coming from melt that’s taking place from the top. How long before it reaches all the way down to the water below? I’ll keep an eye on the melt’s expansion.
In the meantime, here’s a movie of the North Pole - created by NOAA from a series of photographs taken by another camera at the North Pole between April and June 4th. Sorry, no Santa Claus.
Ah…Holy Joe Lieberman. As reliable as the proverbial broken clock, and just as correct. On FOXNews Sunday, Joe Lieberman played coy on whether he would pull a Zell Miller and appear at the Republican National Convention.
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WALLACE: If youâre asked, will you?
LIEBERMAN: If John asks me, and he thinks I can help him, because I believe this is no ordinary time, no ordinary election, John McCain is no ordinary candidate. I want to help him. Iâm not going to go to attack Barack Obama. Iâm going to go to explain why I as an Independent Democrat am supporting John McCain, hoping that I can convince other Independents and Democrats to join me in choosing the man who is clearly more ready to be the President America needs today.
Okay, whatever, Joe. I hear words coming out of your mouth, but what do they mean? Independent Democrat? No ordinary election? More ready to be President? That America needs today? Meaningless platitudes, Lie-berman. But none so meaningless as that statement “I’m not going to attack Barack Obama” because it takes nothing for you to start spouting off those RNC-crafted talking points to attack Obama.
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LIEBERMAN: If Barack Obama’s policy in Iraq had been implemented, he couldn’t be able to be in Iraq today. It’s because he was prepared to accept “retreat and defeat” and that would mean today, al Qaeda would be in charge of parts of Iraq, Iranian-backed extremists would be in charge of other parts of Iraq, there’d be civil war and maybe even genocide. And the fact is, we’re winning in Iraq today. And you know, you can’t choose as Sen. Obama seems to think, to lose in Iraq so you can win in Afghanistan. The reality is if we lost in Iraq-which Obama was prepared to do-we would go to Afghanistan as losers and instead, al Qaeda has its tail tucked between its legs as it’s exiting Iraq to go to try to [crosstalk-unintelligible] into Afghanistan.
What color is the sky in your world, Joe? Because I’m pretty sure you’re talking from some parallel reality. If Barack Obama’s initial policy in Iraq (opposing invasion) would have been implemented, we wouldn’t have gone into Iraq at all. His current policy of a measured withdrawal is the one favored by the Iraqi government. So are you saying that listening to the democratic government we propped up helped establish is “retreat and defeat”? And I don’t know how to break this to you, Joe, but if we hadn’t gone into Iraq, there’d be no opportunity for al Qaeda to establish any foothold in Iraq, much less control a section of it. And the Iranian-backed sector? They’re called the Shi’a. They’re the ones in charge now that we got rid of the more secular Sunni government of Saddam Hussein, you freakin’ idiot. Not to mention there IS a civil war and with more than a million Iraqis dead and 3 million refugees, I’d say there’s a genocide going on as well.
But this is what Joe Lieberman thinks is “winning” in Iraq and sending al Qaeda running with “its tail between its legs.” Riiigggghtt.
Don’t miss where Evan Bayh rightfully shoots down these BizarroWorld talking points with a little injection of reality and both Lieberman and Wallace race to interrrupt and shut him down. Can’t let those Fox viewers be informed.
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WALLACE: Real quickly, are you going to speak at the Republican Convention?
LIEBERMAN: Uh, I don’t know yet.
WALLACE: If you’re asked, will you?
LIEBERMAN: If John asks me, and he thinks I can help him, because I believe this is no ordinary time, no ordinary election, John McCain is no ordinary candidate. I want to help him. I’m not going to go to attack Barack Obama. I’m going to go to explain why I as an Independent Democrat am supporting John McCain, hoping that I can convince other Independents and Democrats to join me in choosing the man who is clearly more ready to be the President America needs today.
WALLACE: Even if that means the Senate Democrats would kick you out of their caucus?
LIEBERMAN: Well, I’m following the model of John McCain. I’m going to do what I think is right for the country and not worry about the politics and John McCain is definitely right for the country as our next President.
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LIEBERMAN: If Barack Obama’s policy in Iraq had been implemented, he couldn’t be able to be in Iraq today. It’s because he was prepared to accept “retreat and defeat” and that would mean today, al Qaeda would be in charge of parts of Iraq, Iranian-backed extremists would be in charge of other parts of Iraq, there’d be civil war and maybe even genocide. And the fact is, we’re winning in Iraq today. And you know, you can’t choose as Sen. Obama seems to think, to lose in Iraq so you can win in Afghanistan. The reality is if we lost in Iraq-which Obama was prepared to do-we would go to Afghanistan as losers and instead, al Qaeda has its tail tucked between its legs as it’s exiting Iraq to go to try to [crosstalk-unintelligible] into Afghanistan.
BAYH: I have to respond to that. Barack Obama was not for “losing” in Iraq. Barack didn’t want the war to begin with. John McCain opposed surging troops in Afghanistan till last week. [Lieberman interrupts] Joe, excuse me. Was John for losing in Afghanistan? I don’t think so. And now you have Maliki, even President Bush, are moving towards Barack Obama’s position. His judgment [crosstalk] was right…
WALLACE: Gentleman, I want to…we could continue this…
LIEBERMAN: Bottom line, no question Barack Obama was prepared to lose in Iraq. [crosstalk]
BAYH: That’s not true…
LIEBERMAN: Whether it was right or wrong…
WALLACE: Gentleman, you’re going to have to agree to disagree. I want to move on to the whole issue of his trip this week…
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Favre 'Unretirement' Proves a Headache for Daily Paper (E&P)
For the Green Bay Press-Gazette, the ongoing battle between Brett Favre and Packer management has been both a blessing and a curse. Since news broke that Favre had changed his mind and wanted to come back for another season, the daily has seen a boost in web traffic, reader comments, and single-copy sales. But the paper's sales of retirement-related merchandise that began in March when Favre tearfully announced his departure after 16 seasons has all but ground to a halt.
ABC News, WaPo Withheld Results of Poll (Media Matters)
ABC News and the Washington Post issued staggered releases of the results of their latest poll, withholding from their first release results favorable to Sen. Barack Obama, including the finding that 50 percent of registered voters would vote for Obama for president versus 42 percent for Sen. John McCain.
That Old Lady in Dubuque Gets the New Yorker's Cover (NYT)
When The New Yorker came into being in the 1920s its founder, Harold Ross, held up Dubuque as the sort of backwater he wanted nothing to do with. Ross, with Eustace Tilley nose in the air, said the magazine would not be "edited for the old lady in Dubuque." Not surprisingly, Dubuquers thought it terribly snooty of him, not to mention unfair. But they know enough to recognize satire.
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Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren is blasting Netroots Nation, which calls itself a "progressive political movement," for for labeling FNC "opinion media." But Van Susteren saved much of her blog ire for CNN.
I know someone at CNN — and to protect that person's job won't identify — who said that when he/she files a story with an editor that has criticism of Senator Obama which he/she believes is factual and fair, the story criticism comes back watered down...this does not happen to the person's filed story when the criticism is of Senator Clinton or Senator McCain. This has never happened to me at Fox. No one has ever told me what to say or not. (And, as an aside, when I worked for Ted Turner at CNN, it never happened to me there, either.)
A CNN insider tells TVNewser: "Greta is a good lawyer and certainly she ought to know the difference between fact and hearsay. It's surprising she would write something as preposterous as this is."
Van Susteren also had a parting shot for MSNBC: "Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann? Netroot Nations think they have not marketed their opinions? they are not 'opinion media?' Give me a break!"
Gretawire...the gift that keeps on giving.
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WordCamps in Africa, China, and the Philipines. WordPress is spreading. WordPress 2.6 is out with only a few problems, and a lot of cool features and improvements. The Weblog Tools Collection WordPress Plugin Competition is now closed and there is a great list of Plugins for you to vote on. Lots of news on WordPress 2.6. WordCamp UK is this weekend, and there are some record breaking WordCamps coming up. Jeffro2pt0 bids the WP Weekly Podcast good-bye.
WordPress 2.6 Released:WordPress 2.6 has been released. It is a mandatory release and you should Download WordPress 2.6 now. I’ve included a lot of the new features in past issues of the WordPress Wednesday News and highlights and commentary include:
<head>, which can cause problems with some WordPress Plugins, but also make it easier.The announcement also included some interesting information about the release of WordPress 2.6. Over 75 people contributed code to this version. That is a huge team that deserves all our applause for their hard work!
Upgrade with the Automatic Upgrade WordPress Plugin:WordPress Automatic Upgrade WordPress Plugin, which makes upgrading easier, has been updated to work with WordPress 2.6.
WordPress 2.6 Issues: For the most part, there have been very few problems reported with upgrades of WordPress 2.6.
index.php in their permalinks, something you shouldn’t need to do.WordPress 2.5 Branch No Longer Supported: The announcement of the release of WordPresss 2.6 came with the news that WordPress 2.5 will no longer be supported. It is nearly identical to the new version and has little impact on Themes and Plugins.
WordPressMU Beta Release:WordPressMU 2.6 beta 1 has been released to work with WordPress 2.6 features and includes a change in the version number from 1.6 to 2.6 to match WordPress, improved spam proofing on the sign up page, object cache changes to improve efficiency and speed, and many more bug and security fixes. WordPressMU is the WordPress version that runs multi-user blogs like WordPress.com.
WordPress Meets iPhone:WordPress for iPhone is a an iPhone-native WordPress client and supports WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress blogs. There is a screencast video showcasing its usage. There are also examples of how the WordPress iPhone works with Prologue and Mdot.
Do You Blog By Email?Ozh brings up blogging by email and asks readers if they are using this long time core feature of WordPress. Are you? Would you like to see it improved? Join the conversation.
Looking Back Into the History of WordPress:Keith Dsouza of Weblog Tools Collection shares “Evolution of WordPress: B2/Cafelog to WordPress 1.0″, a history lesson on how WordPress grew out of B2/Cafelog in the early days.
WordPress Mug Contest:WordCast is having a WordCast Mugshot Contest with winners winning WordPress mugs and other prizes. To enter, you must share a picture of your favorite mug.
WordPress Plugin Competition: The Weblog Tools Collection’s WordPress Plugin Competition for WordPress 2.5+ is over for entrants and now it’s time to check out these hot and innovative WordPress Plugins and rate your favorites. Here are most of the final entries:
Having Trouble Publishing Code in Posts and Comment? If you publish code in your WordPress posts and comments, WordPress may think it is code. To prevent code acting like code, WordPress automatically filters it out of the posts and comments, as does many other blogging and CMS programs. To publish code as content, see Writing Code in Your WordPress Posts and Writing and Publishing Code in Your WordPress Blog Posts.
Last Week’s WordPress Wednesday News: Can’t get enough WordPress news and tips? There is so much news coming out about the latest version, so you can catch up with the past news in last week’s WordPress Wednesday News: WordCamps in Australia and Hawaii, Security Check Plugin, Google Gears, Lots of Plugin News and Tips, WordPress 2.6 News, and If Not WordPress, What?.
WordPress Podcast:The WordPress Podcast: Episode 43: Out Of Date Blogs Hacked, All-In-One Seo Gets Dropped, Then Picked Up covered those topics and the development of the Crazy Horse new WordPress Administration Panels interface, Batcache, HyperDB, WordPress Plugins, WordPress 2.6, and security issues.
WP Weekly Podcast: This week saw the Final Episode Of WPWeekly with Jeffro2pt0, a fun WordPress weekly live show. The final episode includes a rare interview with Alex King, one of the hottest Plugin developers and WordPress fans. The Alex King Theme Competition and other contests and WordPress Community efforts are legendary, and he continues to produce and support some of the most popular WordPress Plugins. What a great send off. Good luck, Jeff, with your future with Performancing!
WordCast Podcast: The 20th episode of WordCast featured Lorelle on WordPress in the longest podcast they’ve ever recorded. Topics included WordPress 2.6, favorite books for bloggers, blog advertising, Matt Mullenweg, and a lot of blogging and WordPress talk. Lorelle also shares her favorites: WordPress Comment Ninja and Akismet Anti Spam FireFox Greasemonkey Scripts for WordPress. The next issue, WordCast 21: Purple Knuckles, featured WordPress 2.6, WordPress.com versus WordPress.org, and more WordPress Plugins.
WordCamp UK Rocking:WordCamp UK is on for this weekend and is filled with some of the best of the best in WordPress and blogging from the area:
Tickets are required for WordCamp UK, so hurry before they are all gone.
Record Breaking WordCamps: We’ve got some record breakers coming up for WordCamp events. There are 5 WordCamps set for this September, and three will all be on September 27: WordCamp Utah in Salt Lake City, WordCamp Birmingham in Alabama, and WordCamp Portland in Oregon. Three WordCamps are scheduled so far for October. It’s going to be an autumn stuffed with WordCamp and WordPress fun.
WordPress Meetup or WordCamp Near You? If you are putting together a WordPress event, please email me so I can publicize it here. If there is a WordCamp near you, go. If you are interested in setting up a WordCamp, stay tuned for news and information on to bring a WordCamp event near you.
Here are some WordPress-related dates and events to put on your calendar as found on the WordPress Roadmap and the WordPress Meetup Group Listings (subject to change).
WordCamp San Francisco August 16: August 16, 2008 is the next WordCamp San Francisco, considered by many to be the premier WordCamp event. This year, it appears it will be only one day instead of two, but details are still coming. It will be at the Mission Bay Conference Center this year.
WordCamps and WordPress Meetups Everywhere: A WordPress Meetup is a frequent meeting of WordPress fans. A WordCamp is a day or two long event with sponsors and dozens if not hundreds of WordPress fans gathering annually. If you would like to sponsor or host a WordCamp, check out the new official site for tracking WordCamps is WordCamp Central, which includes instructions and guidelines for running a WordCamp. If you would like to start a WordPress Meetup group, find a meeting place and announce it among your friends, and add a listing to the Yahoo Upcoming events for WordPress, as many track WordPress event announcements there.
Mark Ghosh of Weblog Tools Collection asks “How many Queries are too many?” in a WordPress blog. In summary, the issue is how many queries to the WordPress database are made by WordPress Plugins and WordPress Themes and what impact that has on the database, server load, and user experience. His experience with his popular site gives a great example and he asks you to chime in with your experiences.
Must Have WordPress 2.5 Plugins:Mashable: 20+ Must-Have WordPress 2.5 Compatible Plugins has been released with some great Plugins in their listing. However, they are a week short since WordPress 2.6 is now out. Fortunately, most WordPress 2.5 Plugins will work with the new version.
Interesting WordPress Plugins: Here are some interesting and unusual Plugins I stumbled on recently:
Finding WordPress Plugins: For more WordPress Plugins see the official WordPress Plugin Directory, the WordPress Plugins Database, and Weblog Tools Collection Plugin and Theme announcements.
Do You Say “WordPress Plugin” on Your Plugin Page? I’m finding a lot of WordPress Plugin authors are not using the word “WordPress Plugin” in their Plugin’s official page, nor within the text. Remember that “WordPress Plugin” is a popular keyword search term and if you aren’t using it, your chances of being found drops. Avoid separating the two words like “WordPress Blah Blah Plugin” and keep them together such as “Blah Blah WordPress Plugin” as the closer the terms are to each other, the more important they are. Most people search for “how to do blah WordPress Plugin” when they search, so help them find you by using the words and keeping them together. And it’s Plugin not plug-in, something you connect to electricity.
Here are some more interesting WordPress tips I’ve uncovered:
Want to Write a WordPress Tip and See It Here? If you would like your WordPress tip and technique included in this list, see Tips For Writing Good WordPress Tips and Writing and Publishing Code In Your WordPress Blog Posts. When its ready, contact me at lorelleonwordpress@gmail.com.
Get Your WordPress Mug:I love my new WordPress mug and shared my love with a lot of people recently. Go get yours at the WordPress Shop along with t-shirts and hoodies. Don’t want to buy one? Enter the WordCast Mugshot Contest and you could win one, alone with some other fun schwag.
Found a Bug in WordPress? If you find a bug in WordPress, report it by following the instructions in Reporting Bugs on the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress Users.
Give Something Back to WordPress:Jeff Chandler of Weblog Tools Collection has written “24 Ways To Contribute To WordPress” with suggestions on how to get involved in helping WordPress development. If you would like to help with the WordPress Codex, the official online user manual for WordPress users, we need you. If you would like to contribute to WordPress as a volunteer in the WordPress Support Forums, testing, coding, and more, see Contributing to WordPress. If you would like to help improve WordPress by reporting bugs, please report them via the WordPress Bug Report form. Your help is needed to ensure WordPress works.
Vote for WordPress Ideas: There is still time to get your vote in for ideas on upcoming versions of WordPress in the The WordPress Ideas section. Why not take advantage of it and add your voice to the vote.
Looking for a WordPress Expert? If you are looking for a WordPress expert, try the WordPress Consultants list from Automattic, the WordPress Jobs listings, and the WP-Pro mailing list.
WordPress Installed For Free:Installing WordPress for Free (aka Install4Free WordPress) is a free, volunteer-driven service is limited to personal blogs only, and they help only with installations, not upgrades.
Don’t Use WordPress in Your Blog’s Name: It’s about respect. Please use WordPress names right because WordPress is a trademark and you are not allowed to use WordPress in your blog’s domain name or URL unless you have permission of Automattic and WordPress. Also, remember, it’s spelled “WordPress” not “Wordpress”. Oh, and Plugin is Plugin, not plug-in (what you put into a wall electrical socket).
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Saturdays in 2008 are devoted to the music of Göteborg. This week's guest: Patrik Bengtsson from The Kid. The band's new album "Transient blood" is out now on Hybris.
First off, the standard question: how long have you lived in Gbg, what brought you there and what keeps you around?
Johan is born here and the other three of us are from Småland and moved here to exchange the rich soil and the pine trees for education and nightlife. Then we found friends and love and decided to stay. Frida moved here in 1996 and me and Maja came in 2000.
I hear a strong lineage in The Kid's music that connects it to the Gbg post-punk scene of yore, bands such as Cortex (obviously), but it's more than that. Do you think that's an extension of living in the same city or is it more predetermined? Was that the sort of thing you grew up on or did you discover it later?
Freddie Wadling is an icon, all the things he has been involved in is great such as Blue for Two, Liket Lever, Lädernunnan, Rukorna and Fläskkvartetten, the original punkscene of Gbg was great with bands like Göteborg Sound and Slobobans Undergång. We were listening to punk and post-punk long before we moved to Gbg. The Swedish post-punk scene was great, with bands like Commando M Pigg, Brända Barn and Reeperbahn. As a new Gothenburger you become proud of Gbg when you understand what this town has giving the world in forms of music and bands, but our taste in music was already formed when we all moved here.
Do you think it's important to keep that musical heritage alive?
When it comes to pop music, no.
Putting aside nostalgia for the moment, how would you say The Kid looks toward the future? Are there any current movements/scenes/happenings in Gbg (or elsewhere) worth paying attention to, whether you are personally involved or not?
We will continue struggling with the band trying to combine the sound of the early 80-ies with the sound of the new new wave/the new new romantic. Make some shows and some new songs. No big plans, just nice to have the possibility to do this and get paid for it. We've been around for a couple of years now and we are quite bored playing for stiff students. It's time for the new Gbg-scene with people in their 20ies to do the studentclub-mayhem. I think the new Gbg pop-scene is some form of an antiscene. They frown at the old Service glory days. They spit on electronic stuff like laptops and iPods, they play instruments and wear hats and love Håkan Hellström instead of The Embassy and Claes Ohlson-stroboscope. And they've got authentic good self-esteem; that's good but it's the total opposite of the classic Gbg scene.
Don't think that I'm a silly old fart, I love changes. And some of these kid are guests at my monthly 77-punk club and they know the lyrics to all the old Gbg punk songs. So the future is saved. They know their heritage.
I understand that a number of you are involved in other art projects besides The Kid- what else are you currently working on?
We are constantly working with other art(y)/music projects.
You will find a couple of them on our myspaceÂsite under top friends. Otherwise, we are still working as Artists and Architects, and when we run out of money we take care of old people, trees and flowers. You can also visit www.mermermer.com and click on Frida Sjöstam and www.patrikbengtsson.com for some aesthetic-experience.
Would you say that Gbg is an artist-friendly city?
I'm sure that Gbg is the best music-friendly town in Sweden. All the interesting bands from the last 10 years are from Gbg. And the mood between the bands is nice and friendly.
Lastly, have you got a song from the new album that you'd like to share?
I think "Let's go kid" or "Bloodmoon" are two nice songs, you could use one of them.
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The drama between Microsoft and Yahoo has been taking place—in a very public way—for almost half a year now, and today Yahoo rachetted up the tension even further. In an open letter to shareholders, the company urged investors to back Yahoo's current board of directors and reject a takeover attempt from dissatisfied billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who wants to appoint his own board and lay Yahoo for sale on Microsoft's doorstep. And Yahoo's letter walks right up to the line, insinuating Icahn is all but lying to get Yahoo investors to back his plans. "The recently-formed Carl Icahn-Microsoft alliance continues to make
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Fox & Friends aired the first two parts of a cable exclusive interview between anchor Brian Kilmeade and soccer star David Beckham.
Kilmeade's more than just a fan — he's a soccer player and coach himself. And according to co-anchor Steve Doocy, the two are involved in a bit of a "bromance."
Beckham talks soccer in America, playing hurt and celebrity friendships.
Part three of the interview airs tomorrow morning.
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Fallon Will Start Late Night on the Web (NYT)
With a new round of shake-ups in late-night television set to begin next year, Lorne Michaels has decided to try to get a jump on things by starting NBC's next edition of Late Night, with its new host Jimmy Fallon, as a nightly entry on the Internet. Fallon has been named as the replacement for Conan O'Brien when O'Brien takes over the Tonight show from Jay Leno next year. TV Week: Leno's NBC run to end in late May or early June of next year.
NBC Sells 90% of Olympic Ads (Hollywood Reporter)
With less than three weeks to the start of the Beijing Games, NBC Universal is poised to announce Monday that it has sold 90% of its Olympics ad inventory. The network reiterated that it was on track to break a record with more than $1 billion in ad sales. The network said the pace of advertising has picked up in recent weeks, thanks to its coverage of Olympics trials during weekend primetime. NYT: With the Games only 19 days away, many at NBC are concerned about how they will be permitted to cover any unscheduled events, like political protests or government crackdowns -- or whether the Chinese government will allow them to cover such things at all.
Sulzberger Navigates Between Past, Present at the Once Old Gray Lady (AdAge)
Arthur Sulzberger Jr. remains on the hook for some things you can just feel -- especially if you just survived the newsroom's first-ever layoffs, a response to declining ad revenue, or you own company stock, which hit its lowest price since 1995 last week. The biggest is a brewing battle royal among international news brands.
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