MioMyo wrote:
>
> Moron, that was their Republican Primary choice which speaks volumes
about
Moron, they endorsed Clinton. Ergo, they backed McFlipflop and its costing
them.
> McCain.I didn't pay attention to who their dem choice was but I'd lay
odds
> it was either Clinton or bamby, probably bamby......
>
> "Rich Travsky" <traRvEsky@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> > MioMyo wrote:
> >>
> >> Couldn't happen to a more liberally partisan democrat
mouth-piece.....
> >
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/25/opinion/25fri2.html
> > Primary Choices: John McCain
> >
> > We have strong disagreements with all the Republicans running for
> > president.
> > The leading candidates have no plan for getting American troops out of
> > Iraq.
> > They are too wedded to discredited economic theories and unwilling
even
> > now
> > to break with the legacy of President Bush. We disagree with them
strongly
> > on what makes a good Supreme Court justice.
> >
> > Still, there is a choice to be made, and it is an easy one. Senator
John
> > McCain of Arizona is the only Republican who promises to end the
George
> > Bush
> > style of governing from and on behalf of a small, angry fringe. With a
> > record
> > of working across the aisle to develop sound bipartisan legislation,
he
> > would
> > offer a choice to a broader range of Americans than the rest of the
> > Republican
> > field.
> > ...
> >
> >>
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0887d6aa-58da-11dd-a093-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1
> >>
> >> The New York Times suffered a 16.4 per cent decrease in June
advertising
> >> revenues and warned on Wednesday that the effects of high oil prices,
a
> >> slowing economy and the housing crisis were likely to weigh on its
> >> prospects
> >> for some time.
> >>
> >> "I think it's clear that many of the advertising budgets are
tightening
> >> up,"
> >> said Janet Robinson, chief executive of the New York Times Company,
> >> predicting a "tough" second half of the year.
> >>
> >> The June performance followed an 11.9 per cent decline in May
advertising
> >> revenues, and suggested that an already deep erosion in newspaper
> >> advertising could be accelerating. Ms Robinson said the company would
> >> respond by raising newsstand prices for the New York Times from $1.25
to
> >> $1.50 per copy beginning in August, marking the paper's second
increase
> >> in a
> >> year.
> >>
> >> That announcement came as the company re****ted that second-quarter
> >> profits
> >> fell 82 per cent to $21m, or 15 cents per share, compared with the
same
> >> period a year ago, when it benefited from a $94m gain from the sale
of
> >> television stations.
> >>
> >> Excluding that and other one-time events, income from continuing
> >> operations
> >> was down 5.5 per cent for the quarter. Revenue fell 6 per cent to
$742m.
> >>
> >> The New York Times Company's results were the latest sign of gloom
from
> >> the
> >> newspaper industry, which is now feeling the effects of a slowing
economy
> >> as
> >> it grapples with an ongoing migration of readers and advertisers to
the
> >> internet.
> >>
> >> Gannett, the largest US newspaper chain, last week re****ted a 36 per
cent
> >> decline in second-quarter earnings, including a 17 per cent drop in
> >> advertising at its flag****p USA Today newspaper.
> >>
> >> Times' executives on Wednesday pointed to weakness in a variety of
> >> advertising categories, including Hollywood studios, department
stores,
> >> technology products and telecommunications.
> >>
> >> Among the worst-hit was real estate classified ads, which first moved
> >> online
> >> to lower-cost competitors and are now drying up altogether in hard
hit
> >> property markets like California.
> >>
> >> This year, the New York Times offered voluntary redundancies to about
100
> >> newsroom employees, a rare step for a paper that has prided itself on
> >> adding
> >> journalists even while competitors were retrenching. The company said
on
> >> Wednesday that the voluntary buy-outs were expected to cost
$40m-$50m.
> >>
> >> One bright spot for the company was its About.com website, where
revenues
> >> increased 15.8 per cent to $28.6m amid higher advertising. That
helped
> >> its
> >> internet revenues grow 12.8 per cent to $91.3m for the quarter,
> >> accounting
> >> for 12.3 per cent of its total revenues.
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