I posted a series of articles last summer on the theme of contraction in the U.S. newspaper industry, but it got to be an onerous, not to mention depressing, task.

Fortunately, this NYT article nicely wraps up how much things are sucking down there.

CanWest is suing the Tyee over an article that admittedly had errors in it.

Note the Tyee's Feb. 5 story:

Two days after it was published, the column was amended with the intent to correct errors and then, later in the day, removed from The Tyee. Tyee staff then worked with Google to remove the link from that search engine.

The Tyee has published three retractions of the column in question, the first on Dec. 27 and two more, by Tyee editor David Beers and Mair, on Jan. 17. Beers and Mair apologized “unreservedly” and stated they “sincerely regret any damage or harm that has been suffered by any of the individuals involved, including the Asper family.”

Here's an earlier post on this. Methinks this lawsuit is payback for earlier tweaks of CanWest's nose by the Tyee.