Posted on 27 Aug 2009 at 8:13pm
History tells us that when an industry is declining, its speed of descent depends on the ability of management and workers to accept changing realties and either find new ways of operating, or diversify into other areas of business. Most U.S. newspapers have yet to learn the lesson.
With circulations waning and advertisers shifting to cheaper [...]...
Posted on 24 Aug 2009 at 7:39am
So, why is no one asking if President Obama is “stupid”? After all, he has made plenty of bigger gaffes than former Vice President Dan Quayle’s misspelling of the word “potato”.
Take his comment during the election campaign that he had visited 57 American states and had just one left to go. Or how about St. [...]...
Posted on 20 Aug 2009 at 8:34am
Twenty-one years after U.S. actor Ted Danson wrongly predicted that the world had just ten years “to save the oceans”, another Hollywood star is making careless environmental predictions at the behest of one of the world’s wealthiest campaign groups, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
Noah Wyle, famous for his role as Dr. John Carter in the hit [...]...