The New York Daily News “Hot Copy” columnist Paul Colford reports that teen-magazine sales have plummeted — and online usage by kids is one of the key factors in the decline.
The suggestion in the article: any teen-oriented magazine these days better not be first-and-foremost a magazine, but rather an intelligently converged print / online teen information/news/entertainment source.
Monthly Archives: February 2004
Bush Suppresses Report on Global Warming
· Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war
· Britain will be ‘Siberian’ in less than 20 years
· Threat to the world is greater than terrorism
Mark Townsend and Paul Harris report in today’s Guardian/Observer (reprinted in Z-Mag) on a secret Pentagon report about global warming.
Suppressed by US defence chiefs, the report obtained by The Observer warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020, and nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt a cross the world.
The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The threat to global stability eclipses that of terrorism, say the experts privy to its contents.
‘Liberal’ Apologist: Chasing Judith Miller off the Stage
The New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning bio-terrorism reporter, Judith Miller, is taken to task for her role as an apologist for the Bush regime in Washington, with reference made to Miller having gone as far as hijacking a military unit while reporting on the war in Iraq.
And who said that the media are independent, and their reporting fair and balanced, in service only of the ‘truth’? Don’t you believe it for a moment.
Haunted By A Dead Soldier’s Face
“She looked at a newspaper and saw Michael Jackson and Martha Stewart. How could they dare put something like this in while there are dead soldiers coming in on planes? There were three dead women killed in Iraq and brought through Dover. They went unmentioned. This made her furious.”
Today’s Jimmy Breslin column in Newsday.
Meanwhile, Jonathan S. Landay, Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott publish this story, also available at SmirkingChimp.com, about continued funding for the Information Collection Program of the Iraqi National Congress, even though the group has consistently provided false Iraqi intelligence.