NEW YORK (AP) - The Wall Street Journal has surpassed USA Today as the top-selling daily newspaper in the United States.

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It appears that AOL will evolve pass the print media in using an electronic format because the print media executives have difficulty with recognizing that they are in the information business where its deliverance must be in the manner that the customers use most.

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It is difficult to pay for news when the Internet is underpinned on the free flow of information. Yesterday's newspaper letters-to-editor evolved into many people today writing blogs that help give news wider coverage and a longer life.

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There's lots of speculation on what the soon-to-be independent AOL should do to drive user and revenue growth, and stay relevant in a world dominated by Google, Microsoft and Facebook.

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The 83-year-old is reported to be considering selling the company he founded more than 56 years ago for some £200 million, with Sir Richard Branson's firm Virgin tipped as a potential buyer.

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Watching the Rocky Mountain News go under and the Chicago Sun-Times declare bankruptcy, I feel, like everyone else, that we're witnessing the end of an era.

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The Newspaper Association of America is meeting in San Diego this week and they're preaching up at their own choir loft with angry, self-righteous fire and brimstone about their plight. They need to hear a new message, a blunt message from the outside.

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Comedy Central is replacing print media as a news source for the younger generation. A third of those under 40 are using comedy shows as their source of news. Newspaper circulation is down.

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There is a certain nostalgia to print newspapers.

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A revisionist biography of America's most notorious press Baron, William Randolph Hearst, reviewed by Matthew Price.

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Newspapers and their online offspring combined are more popular than ever imagined and yet media reports nearly always paint a portrait of an industry gasping for air in the digital age.

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This is an impressive exercise in layout philosophy. Some of these are eyesores, but some give me hope for print journalism. Like, I want to read the Bradenton Herald right now.

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The second-richest man in the world, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu, is taking a chance on the New York Times by purchasing a 6.4 percent in the company. He now owns 9.1 million shares which are worth about $138.6 million.

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I think this was proven some time ago with the evolution of craigslist and now all the other want ad/ free classified sites. Even Walmart is working on a competitor site to the likes of craigslist and oodle etc....

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New Rolling Stone issue highlights grass-roots Obama machine

The March 20, 2008 issue of Rolling Stone has an excellent piece by Tim Dickinson titled The Machinery of Hope. The article takes a look inside the amazing grass-roots machine of the Obama campaign. You can view the web version of the article over at the Rolling Stone website.

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While metro newspapers continue to struggle, smaller markets are actually seeing broad gains in readership, both in print and online.

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The Order of the Occult Hand never meets, lacks a leader and has but one simple ritual and purpose: to sneak a certain phrase into print. That phrase is: "It was as if an occult hand had ..."

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When the business model of "real journalism" fails, what should society do in response? When things are considered important, but can't be supported with a business model, government sometimes steps in. National parks, highways, police and national defense are all examples.

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Kent Brownridge's acquisition of the Felix Dennis lad titles is finally complete. As mentioned before, Stuff will be folded into Maxim.

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Obituaries for newspapers are already being written in the United States and much of Europe, with the rise of the Internet and shrinking attention spans listed as the causes of death. But the news hasn't made it to India.

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So here's an ethical conundrum. Do you support a police officer who poses as a journalist to set up a meeting with a suspect? That's just what a Vancouver cop did to flush our and anti-poverty activist recently.

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Ron Burkle, in Buying a Chunk of Primedia, Takes on an Industry That's Being Killed by Half-Wit Overlords. Who or what is really killing print? Craig Newmark? Blogs? YouTube, maybe? The internet in general? Or any of the other usual suspects?

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The NY Times reports, "While most newspapers are trying to stake bigger claims online, one new publication is pulling material off the Internet to be printed in ink."

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Is Fox News Biased Or Are You? Read And Be Your Own Judge

Anyone who asserts that there is bias in the main-stream media (excepting Fox News, of course) is obviously biased, partisan, and in need of IQ-enhancing medication. Right? Maybe not. Is Fox biased? Read on and make that determination yourself.

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