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 and more user-friendly online alternatives, many traditional American newspapers are sliding towards extinction.  As…

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. Patrick’s Day, when the White House teleprompter malfunctioned and he declared, “I want to…

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 hospital series “ER”, stars in a new television fundraising advertisement in the U.S. that…