Downturns are nothing new, yet the era of instant news and analysis beats the drums louder then ever.
Unlike the situation in the US - particularly in the era of Fox News - there are no significant communications outlets in Israel that are not controlled by the Left.
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Mostly this has to do with the cost of maintaining reporters and news bureaus in an era where Google can link to a story at a news site and generate far more income from that than the actual news site can.
Indeed, this was almost before that era, when local news was dominated by middle-age white men who looked like they had turned to broadcasting after the job at the bank fell through.
How exactly, for example, does Sir Mervyn think you could agree to restructure the private debt that is causing so much trouble, in an era of 24-hour news and round-the-clock leaks?
But, this anecdote of the ebook era may not be all bad news for publishers.
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Now, in the era of a 24-hour news cycle across multiple platforms, Sherwood has his work cut out for him.
"Processing more of this imagery would allow us to provide more robust conclusions about how recent sea-ice change compares with that of the pre-satellite measurement era, " he told BBC News.
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In the era of the twenty-four hour news cycle, the Shirley Sherrod story seems like a distant memory.
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The larger challenge in the era of social media then is producing news and information at a scale and cost that matches what marketers are willing to pay.
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In an era when reliable, accurate and knowledgeable business news and information is more valuable than ever, the highest standards are good journalism and good business.
The real news here is that as the era of handset exclusivity fades, Carriers are increasingly going to be forced less on glimmer and more about performance.
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Not to state the obvious, although apparently it must be done: companies, whatever benefit you get by taking advantage of a moment of misfortune through excessive pricing or tacky advertising is not worth the backlash you may be hit with in this era of instant communications and 24-hour news cycles.
Reading the daily news, you might wonder how this era of globalization can survive so many blows.
In an era of increased choices and sagging ratings, the News Corp.
The university said Johnson had begun work on a 19th book, looking at the speed with which breaking news was covered in the social media era.
These include virtually any video source although there won't be much to work with in, say, 2D games from the Super Nintendo era or even today's talking-head news programs.
The good news for outsiders is that, in an era when doing wrong by holders has led execs to jail, supervoting shares no longer afford founders carte blanche.
Battle lines were drawn, as many who felt betrayed and manipulated decried the apparent emergence of yet another liar in this epoch of Enron and the L. Dennis Kozlowski -era Tyco International (nyse: TYC - news - people )--not to mention Winfrey's fellow TV icon Martha Stewart.
The proliferation of channels means that Americans watch less TV news than they did in the pre-cable era.
Search engines such as Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) have ushered in the era of open-source learning.
Google is criticized because services like Google News provide the sorts of stories that in another era you needed to feed change into a newspaper vending machine to get.
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin and Abby Huntsman are tackling a different but just as urgent problem at HuffPost Live, the question of what TV news will look like in the post-cable era.
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If turnout does slip, though, it's not necessarily all bad news - if society is moving away from the era in which voters were determined, above all, to ensure the "other side" didn't get in, should we be worried?
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The turn of the 20th century was the dawn of a new, greased-lightening manufacturing age, the era of Ford Motor 's (nyse: F - news - people ) assembly line.
The good news is that folks who feared the MotionPlus would usher in an era of physically taxing 1-to-1 gameplay (like real sports) don't have to worry about this game outside the added heft it brings to their existing flicks.
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Right there in the dock is a sight that in another era would have given Apple Computer's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) fiercest defenders fits of panic: a Windows "Start" button available on a Mac.
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