Mark Van Patten

Newspaper's Decline Could Be PR Moment For Google

"Indeed, across the country newspapers have suffered enormous financial losses over the past decade..."
is a gross distortion. Newspapers are extremely profitable. Their profits have fallen, but they have not had enormous financial losses.

Yahoo subsidizes the news through it's deal with AP.

We can do without the metros, because the smaller dailies and weeklies are where the majority of people get news that is important to them. They have voted with their pocketbooks by choosing not to renew their subscription to the metros.

Another Blow To Newspapers: Facebook Classifieds

"Imagine the impact this could have on housing ads, such as searching for a roommate."
Now that's a huge market!
"If I were a newspaper exec, I’d thinking long and hard about how to create a social network around the one element that newspapers still have claim to — locality."
It's being done. Stop looking at the Top 25 and making generalizations about the whole newspaper biz.

Starbucks Coffee Struck by Name Play

Well it's better than Sars-sucks
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