To add to the cavalcade of bad news about newspapers, here's an April 25 column by the Toronto Star's Antonia Zerbisias.

The U.S.'s chief weapons inspector says he could find no proof that Iraq shipped WMDs to Syria.

To the surprise of no one, the U.S. has decided its soldiers in Iraq did nothing wrong when they shot up a car carrying a just-freed Italian journalist to Baghdad's airport.

And just as not surprisingly, the Italian government isn't accepting the U.S.'s version as the gospel truth of what happened that night. Sgrena herself has blasted the findings in a front-page story in Il Manifesto, the newspaper that employs her.

I know what I'll do: I'll make it a theme night of newspapers bitching about not getting rich enough! :)

Anyway, this NYT article looks at how U.S. advertisers are starting to turn their noses ...   more »

This story from Tuesday's Globe and Mail has newspaper publishers singing the blues about making money off their online operations.