KSDK: Ethnic press stung by recession, advertising drop
And sometimes their editors and publishers get deported.
CNS: NFL Star Terrell Owens Receives Award for Raising Awareness About Alzheimer’s
Didn’t know that the Alzheimer’s Association had an award for the best outdoors ab workout.
P-D: St. Louis County to help Wellston clean up dumping grounds
Again, not a big fan of redundancies.
KVFS-12: Father, mother use son’s mangled truck to raise awareness of dangerous driving
They knew something had to be done when someone wrote “God Speed” on the wrecked remains of the truck he died in because he was drag racing on public roads.
KSDK: ‘High School Musical 3′ wins at Kids Choice Awards
Hope for Zac Efron’s character to flunk some courses so that he’ll need a fifth year of high school, otherwise HSM 4 will be the end of the line.
KSDK: Blogger Perez Hilton throws star-studded party
The good thing about a gossip blogger throwing a party is that he’s got first dibs on pix and gossip from the party, Lindsay Lohan would have gone from puke to publicity in two seconds.
Red Herring: Microsoft Opens 2-Front Price War
These are wars for which MSFT is sure to have an exit strategy.
AP: Obama rejects GM, Chrysler restructuring plans
I looked at GM’s and Chrysler’s corporate pages this morning, and they have forgotten to update them to show that Barack H. Obama II is both companies’ CEO.
News Factor Network: Google Slashes About 200 Jobs in Sales and Marketing
WTF does Google need with a marketing department? To convince people to use Google instead of all those other search engines?
NPR: Treasury Secretary: We’ve Done A Lot In 8 Weeks
God took 40 days to flood the world, you can forgive Tim Geithner, someone who has slightly less omnipotence, for taking 56 days to wreck the American economy.
AP: Obama envoy: Time to act on climate change
You mean that hour on Saturday night of not having your lights on didn’t do the trick?
AFP: T.S. Eliot nixed Orwell’s ‘Trotskyite’ Animal Farm
It got published anyway, becoming an allegorical classic, so George Orwell did heed Eliot’s advice in that there are no lost causes because there are no won causes.
