So not everyone is obsessing over this as much as some people in the news business.
One area in which the RNIB is urgently seeking help is with the "talking books" which are sent out to keep blind and partially sighted people in the news.
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That is, if we use business surveys to make a big deal of what people think about the general state of the economy, are we simply making news out of what people see in the news?
Ahmad al-Rawy, an MP of the hardline Islamist Nour Party, alone praised the government, saying people in Suez received the news of the curfew "with great happiness" as a challenge to the "victory of the thugs".
What top executive would bet his company the way Tom Watson did IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) in the early 1950s on mainframe computers, the way Bill Gates bet Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) in the mid-1990s on Windows, if he knew failure would tempt prosecutors, politicians and bureaucrats to destroy him?
One problem with much of the data economists pore over: "The stuff that people are looking at in the news are lagging indicators, " says Owen Shapiro, principal at Leo J.
How could anyone, you might wonder, not see the link between a dramatic reduction in the number of people producing the news and the thoroughness of that product?
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He has interviewed primeministers and celebrities, but most importantly, the people who make the news in Oxfordshire.
So, as the magazine prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary, this is perhaps a fitting occasion to look back at the people who were powering the news in Asia in our first editions.
Louise Christian, the lawyer for many of the families of the people killed in the disaster, told BBC News this was a devastating decision for the bereaved and accused the CPS of losing its nerve.
This would also be true of the WSJ, us here at Forbes, in fact, all news organisations that allow people in the UK to read their output could be caught under this set of rules.
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In a 24-hour news cycle, waiting for oral statements on policy matters in Parliament was "quite difficult", as the days when people got their news from the parliamentary pages in the newspapers was "long gone".
Riley Dunn, a University of Alabama senior who was injured in the shooting, told The Tuscaloosa News that 80 to 90 people were in the bar at the time.
The current crisis started last month when the government of Andhra Pradesh came up with new, strict regulation on the basis of news that 30 people in the state had committed suicide in 45 days because of the coercive methods of MFIs.
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Okolloh tried to verify information by calling back people who had texted in the news or by checking against media reports.
These are the people the most trusted brands in news are trusting to help them figure out the digital future.
So who does Rather blame for the facts vacuum in news, the people running the war?
Check back tomorrow for the latest up-to-the-market news on the wealthiest people in the world.
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"The fact it's going to be maintained and expanded will be good news for people in the surrounding area, " said Vale of Glamorgan council leader Gordon Kemp.
ComScore reports that there were 130 million people in the U.S. who accessed sports news online in October.
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The new regulation came on the basis of the news that 30 people in Andhra Pradesh had committed suicide in 45 days because of the coercive methods of MFIs, the Economics Times reported.
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European anti-trust authorities say Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) broke the rules in competing with Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people )--a move that throws a spotlight on business practices AMD has complained about for years and put at the core of an anti-trust lawsuit it filed against Intel in U.S. courts in 2005.
The survey also showed a mainstream shift in the reasons people got election news online.
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Here in the news people are totally flabbergasped about the fact that Americans are seriously considering to arm teachers.
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The most interesting part of this story is that Google has managed to adapt to the changes in the way people consume news far more effectively than Yahoo and AOL did.
But when the President was in Shanghai more than a year ago, he talked about needing an open society, having an open Internet so that people in China can read about the news all over the world.
He said the bad news was that in the short term there would be pain for people in the Middle East as they attempted to develop democracy after the overthrow of dictators, but in the long term it would be good news because it showed people wanted freedom.
Gates says that the good news is that Microsoft is hiring people in the United States at a rapid rate, which allows the company to do more research and increase employment.
Military Spokesman Eli Lazarus told the Reuters news agency that six people were killed in the violence, which happened when "unknown gunmen attempted to attack Potiskum but were repelled by troops".
It has also reviewed two cases referred to by John Ryley, head of Sky News, at the Leveson Inquiry, in which a Sky News journalist accessed the emails of people suspected of criminal activity.
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