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2009-07-06 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Seafarious 2009-07-06 01:10|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 My interpretation? Like a matriarch of a once-great family fallen on hard times who quietly begins to sell the heirloom jewels. Then even more quietly, the daughters.

Sadly, word always leaks out.

Posted by Seafarious 2009-07-06 02:21|| 2009-07-06 02:21|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm all sympathy.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-07-06 04:28|| 2009-07-06 04:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Captain Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
[a croupier hands Renault a pile of money]
Croupier: Your winnings, sir.
Captain Renault: [sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-07-06 07:14|| 2009-07-06 07:14|| Front Page Top

#4 I thinhk Sea has figgered it out:

Lets put this in context: Ms. Weymouth is confronted with the same crisis as every publisher in the country. The Web has robbed newspapers of paying readers and advertisers, the economic downturn is cutting into what is left, and smaller, nimbler Internet competitors are learning to slake the 24-hour news thirst on their own.

(The fact that it was Politico that broke this story only added to the sting. Started by two former Post reporters, Politico has become a serious competitor right on The Posts inside-the-Beltway turf, and now has caught the paper on a fundamental lapse in the wall between church and state. In the increasingly heated race between the mainstream media and newer, digitally enabled ones, much of the remaining competitive edge for legacy media derives from a perception that they adhere to more rigorous publishing standards. Oops.)

Oops, is right, NYT.

But somehow, you seem to think you're still above it all, instead at the bottom of the pile of slime.

Posted by Bobby 2009-07-06 09:36|| 2009-07-06 09:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Isn't this the definition of Red on Red?

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2009-07-06 10:40|| 2009-07-06 10:40|| Front Page Top

#6 actually i think it is yellow on yellow...

Posted by abu do you love ">abu do you love 2009-07-06 15:46|| 2009-07-06 15:46|| Front Page Top

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