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Early Morning Swim: Special Condi Rice Lying Her Ass Off Edition
Firedoglake — ... moves on Mumbai militants. A deepening Bush recession. Are GM chief's days numbered? A '30s-style strike in Obama's home town. This is excellent news for Republicans. See also: dogs hate cats, water is wet, etc. etc. Jane violates secret liberal code, criticizes the Kennedys. Brokaw passes the torch. Too bad it's not News Corp: Tribune goes bust. Everyone agreed that Saddam had WMD?

Front-Page Blues
Opinionator — ... ,” adds the conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt at his Town Hall blog. If the Tribune Company goes bk, how far behind can the New York Times be? One effect of the recession will be to force corporate America to ask where the ad dollars are being spent. Newspapers with declining circulations and thousands of ’subscribers’ who often don’t even touch a third of the pages have to be the biggest target. There not even much sympathy on the left , if Duncan Black of Eschaton is any barometer: Obviously the existence of quality journalism - local and national - is necessary for a ...