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The Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times are venerable, first-tier journalistic enterprises.  The news about the news business, though, is generally downbeat: ad revenues going to the web, attention spans shrinking, and younger audiences ignoring "mainstream media."  ... Read more

Caterpillar Inc. ( CAT (31.39 ↑2.99% )) said President Barack Obama missed a great opportunity to rebuild America’s infrastructure, stating that the $787 billion stimulus plan was rather disappointing when compared to the funds shelled out for such projects in other countries around the w ... Read more

If print advertising revenue had been down and internet revenue up, there would have been some hope that The New York Times (NYT) was making a modestly successful transition online. But, total Internet revenues decreased 5.6% to $78.2 million from $82.9 million and Internet advertising revenues decl ... Read more

Barry Diller, who has been in the media industry as long as almost any man alive, said the online display advertising at his company, IACI (IACI), might be down as much as 50% this month. Disney (DIS) reported that its interactive business lost money in the final quarter of last year. ... Read t ... Read more

I find the concept of the "Long Tail" makes a lot of sense.  The idea is that the Internet will replace old-style hit-driven broadcast mass media with particularized, segmented media.  Chris Anderson coined the term and made the idea popular, and I think it's especially relev ... Read more