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      <![CDATA[Smitty, I've known a few English majors, and yes, you look like an English major. You're also more gainfully employed than most English majors, and provide a more useful service than nearly all of them.
        
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      <![CDATA[Yeah, I know, the last sentence was structured incorrectly. Big, fat hairy deal.
        
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      <![CDATA[Smitty - customers enter and leave from atop Mandy's perch? What is she, a magic parrot?
        
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      <![CDATA[Hi Marty. What folks do in the privacy of their bathrooms is really none of our concern here at Smitty's.
        
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      <![CDATA[WW: among other reasons your observation about taking newspaper into the bathroom with you is so spot on is that newsprint is a lot more absorbent, and a lot less irritating to sensitive tissue, than either an iPad or a Kindle would be. Right, Smitty?
        
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    <author><![CDATA[williamwebb]]></author>
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      <![CDATA["the old media model is experiencing enormous change — and not just the dead-tree newspaper model." First of all, I take exception to the aspersion on paper as "dead trees."
        
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      <![CDATA[Au contraire, boychick. Knowing what has the realpoliikker's panties in a wad will do you no good whatsoever.
        
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      <![CDATA[Dang, BV: I guess this means no London, Damascus or Mumbai bureaus for the MF. Too bad; you could eat the Guardian's/Le Monde's/Bild's lunch (and I'd love to see what Jackson could do covering some serious realpolitik instead of the chicken shit that passes for it here).
        
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      <![CDATA[I don't expect the Flyer to do more, but what you prescribe is a recipe for irrelevance. Memphis is a major global trade center.
        
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      <![CDATA[CharlesR, coverage of national and world affairs was ceded to national and global media corporations decades ago. Local media have always relied on wire services, stringers, and aggregators to provide national and world news.
        
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      <![CDATA[Bruce, your takeaway from the conference is this: local media should cede coverage of the major subjects that affect their viewers and readers to a handful of global corporations; that unless there's a clear and easy local connection, don't bother. In a city where main economic engine is a corporation that rises and falls based on the global economy, that's a strange conclusion.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:33:05 -0600</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Couldn't you just take the corn from the porcupine and use it to lure the deer into range?<br>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:05:36 -0600</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Oops: All I can say is, dear deer.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:23:37 -0600</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Great article Sir-Bruce and thank you for giving me the chance to mention that i Do Not own any guns, nor posess and firearms, nor are there any in my vicinity (unles the police come to kidnap me). peace
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:52:06 -0600</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[re: By; TharonChandler on 2/1/12 at 8:53<br>
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Taxes? what taxes; fuel taxes ?<br>
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Feb first 2012; <br>
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In the United States ryt now we are enjoying political 'Debates' about our governments 'Tax Policy' (about whom should pay more/ less in taxes) in the need to balance our annual budget and to address the problem of our rising national debts crises (we owe $$ to China and Japan and our President now wants to borrow more from them, again) yet the pundits r simply 'pulling' for one side or the other (either the rich or else the poor) and are not 'explaining Why' or not going into any rightful theory about monetary and fiscal policy.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:52:25 -0600</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[You also have better writers, from you all they way through, which makes a HUGE difference.
        
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      <![CDATA[Marty, you are correct in thinking alternative papers (especially well-established ones in mid-sized cities) are better positioned for survival than big-city dailies. We're free and we're local.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:25:08 -0600</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[All of this actually bodes well for the Flyer, doesn't it, as its recent ad sales demonstrates?<br>
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In spite of all their wailing, I don't think the "lamestream"(you've gotta hand it to Sarah for that one) media are in any serious danger of losing their clout. Daily newspapers, for example, have been very profitable for a very long time.
        
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      <![CDATA[No doubt drift, that's COTW worthy initself.
        
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      <![CDATA["That's true,'said the executive, 'but the Times readers are our customers. Your readers are our shop-lifters."<br>
That should win the best quote of the web conference award.
        
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      <![CDATA[Nah you just need to find a new way to spotlight the deer.
        
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