Aside from the public option, the Democrats' effort to control insurance costs for individuals and small businesses focuses on insurance exchanges that would offer them a wide range of health plans possibly including a public plan and would pool participants to get group insurance rates. These exchanges, featured in the...
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The McClatchy Company (MNI) has announced an offer to exchange $1.15 billion in debt securities for cash and new notes in a move that extends ...
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The fact that Carol Bartz' first act was to announce that Sue Decker is out undoubtedly sent a shiver down newspaper spines. Decker and her protege Hilary Schneider, late of Knight Ridder Digital, have been the high-profile champions of the consortium. So after the Decker shoe dropped, the next one to look for is Schneider's. Golden slipper or Goodwill model? If she stays in place or ascends, the consortium can breathe easier. If she's gone soon herself, all bets are off.
One question not posed lingered with me though: Since Fox is both a news channel with pretensions of journalistic authority and credibility and an anything-goes entertainment provider, we see how it is just getting harder and harder to separate out real journalism from everything else.
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