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Free-fall: Adjusted for inflation, print newspaper advertising revenue in 2012 was lower than in 1950

Free-fall: Adjusted for inflation, print newspaper advertising revenue in 2012 was lower than in 1950. “The dramatic decline in newspaper ad revenues has to be one of the most significant Schumpeterian gales of creative destruction in recent years.” The gubbermint must get involved… to prop up these important sources of ~~propaganda~~ public information with taxpayer money.

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Bonfire of the Absurdities: After 35 year career writing software for IBM mainframes, am now self-employed contractor thinking of joining a union and striking for higher wages. Cured morbid fear of heights when I learned to look at them as lengths standing on end. Uncompromising in refusal to accept browser cookies. Amateur investor who has accumulated a small fortune in the market after starting out years ago with a large one. For recreation, I run, hike, kayak and play tennis but will not consider synchronized swimming under any circumstances.

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6 November 2012 says:

April 10, 2013 at 11:41 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0j0lO7uQBo

Yes! Yes! YES!
poppajoe49 says:

April 10, 2013 at 4:53 am

They are complicit in trying to steal our freedom, let them die.
deepthinker says:

April 10, 2013 at 3:00 am

Slip sliding away.. So when you come knocking and begging for what I have and you are wearing a @#$ damn president quagmire pin or have a bumper sticker on your bike. The words you hear won't be pleasant to your ears.
Not so silent says:

April 9, 2013 at 2:33 pm

F*ck em, let them all go under, they are yesterdays news and think of all the trees they are killing....That's my libturd moment for the day.
- 6 November 2012 says:
  
  April 10, 2013 at 11:37 am
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0j0lO7uQBo