stone (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
I've previously visited New York Times' declining Help-Wanted revenue , and caught up today with the Q3 numbers. The Old Gray Lady has seen better days indeed. According to NYT's Q3 financial release : Q3 Help-Wanted Revenues (for the News Media Group) are down 52.5% to $9.3mm. YTD Help-Wanted Revenues are down 58.0% to $30.8 mm As the New York Times has historically represented less than half of...
Southern Appeal (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Erica Goode, writing in Saturday’s New York Times, takes the prize for most nonsensical analysis of the Ft. Hood shootings. “Every man has his breaking point,” said military doctors in World War II, believing that more than 90 days of continuous combat could turn any soldier into a psychiatric casualty. For Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who [...]
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Although the NYTCo ( NYSE: NYT ) continued to struggle on the display ad front in Q3, NYTimes.com GM Denise Warren finally sees some glimmers of hope. As the crucial holiday season approaches, autos, healthcare and luxury marketers are telling Warren, who is also SVP and chief advertising officer at the New York Times Media Group, that they are ready to begin spending again. But she admits the situation...
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
If only I had the juice (and cash) of sick, bloviating, untethered-from-reality-and-the truth Glenn Beck! The New York Times Opinionator Tobin Harshaw compares my call to shut down the gAyTM to the radical, racist, bigoted diatribes of Glenn Beck. His reasoning? " We know that hard-line conservatives are riled up. But so are hard-left Democrats and their gay allies ." Apparently this statement...
GuruFocus Updates (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Irving Kahn worked with Ben Graham when he was younger. He is the only living value investor who experienced the Great Depression as an adult. So what is he doing at the time of the Great Recession? Buying! This is his Q3 portfolio update. Read more » »
WOW Insider (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
... has fallen smack dab in between two government agencies lobbying for power. In the past, says the NYT, GAPP has approved games pre-release, and the Ministry of Culture has overseen games once they've started running online. But WoW is a weird exception (it has been online for a few years already, and only went offline when Blizzard switched providers), and it looks like both agencies are grabbing...
Time (Free subscription) | yesterday
NYT: Aides presenting Obama with three options ranging from 20,000 - 40,000 in additional troops.
beSpacific (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
November 07, 2009NYT: Broader Measure of U.S. Unemployment Stands at 17.5%: "In all, more than one out of every six workers — 17.5 percent — were unemployed or underemployed in October. The previous recorded high was 17.1 percent, in December 1982."Related
piran café (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nice review last week in the NY Times of Look at the Birdie, a collection of previously unpublished short fiction by Kurt Vonnegut, which was instantly put on my Xmas gift list — for others, and for me. From Dave Eggars’ intro: It’s been two years since Kurt Vonnegut departed this world, and it’s hard not [...]
War and Piece (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
NYT: Truck carrying swine flu vaccine stolen -- for the truck. "The police found the truck 40 minutes later, and said the crime appeared to have been inspired more by the easily available vehicle than by the H1N1 vaccine inside....
Sweetness & Light (Free subscription) | yesterday
From the always understanding New York Times: Painful Stories Take a Toll on Military Therapists By BENEDICT CAREY, DAMIEN CAVE and LIZETTE ALVAREZ November 8, 2009 Many of the patients who fill the day are bereft, angry, broken. Their experiences are gruesome, their distress lasting and the process of recovery exhausting. The repeated stories of battle and [...]
Sweetness & Light (Free subscription) | yesterday
From a giddy New York Times: Sweeping Health Care Plan Passes House By CARL HULSE and ROBERT PEAR November 8, 2009 WASHINGTON — Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, the House narrowly approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health care system on Saturday night, advancing legislation that Democrats said could stand as their defining social policy [...]
Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Marketwatch "I don't believe it is for sale or that the (Sulzberger) family wants to sell it. I do believe they might have to sell it one day," says Ken Auletta . Times Co. CEO Arthur Sulzberger Jr. "has done a brilliant job of keeping the family involved," but he "has not been an outstanding businessman."
AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
My friend Rex Wockner noticed the above ad on the NYT Web site about an hour ago. Click the picture for a larger version.
Petrelis Files (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
NYT: SF Maps HIV Viral Load by Neighborhood The Bay Area section of today's New York Times has a fascinating article by Carol Pogash about the local health department using HIV viral load mapping to ask some important new questions about using new technology to better help people with AIDS and the larger communities in which we live. Full disclosure: I'm quoted, but that is not the only reason why...
