This 1981 report from KRON-TV in San Francisco has been making the rounds in recent days:

From AP via TheStar.com:

The dead hover over the morning meeting at Russia's leading investigative newspaper and chief editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov is in an understandably foul mood as Novaya Gazeta's staffers try to plan the next of its three weekly editions.

In a corner hang photos of four reporters Muratov has lost in the past eight years – one beaten to death, one allegedly poisoned, two shot – the most recent on Jan. 19.

From CP via CTV.ca: (posted Jan. 30)

As advertising revenues evaporate at a merciless pace, Canadian newspapers have had to slash jobs and shutter divisions to keep afloat, with rising online ad sales providing a much-needed lifeline as they transition to new technology.

But with U.S. media bellwether the New York Times posting weaker quarterly Internet ad sales for the first time ever earlier this week, there are signs that going online may not be enough of a shield for traditional media players.

With oil prices falling, much of the runaway expansion planned for Alberta's oilsands has been put on hold for now. Could this be an opportunity. Globe and Mail energy reporter Shawn McCarthy explores that question.

From the Globe and Mail:

It was an attack, vicious even by Afghanistan's violent standards, that shocked the world: A group of men on motorbikes surprised a group of school girls and teachers as they walked to school last November and sprayed their faces with acid.

Now, in what is being billed as a triumph over terrorism in this war-ravaged land, most of the 1,300 students – some with permanent scars on their cheeks and damaged vision – have returned to school full time.

Credit has been handed to headmaster Mahmood Qadri, 54, who moved quickly after the attacks, cajoling and begging the frightened families of the girls not to let the attackers win by giving up on their education.

“We told them not to lose this chance for your children,” Mr. Qadri said.

Saw this on globeandmail.com's media news page:

In fairness, they're not quite the same stories They are pretty much the same stories. From Wednesday:

The New York Times Co. said Wednesday that fourth-quarter earnings plunged 48 per cent and online sales fell for the first time as the recession depressed spending by advertisers. The results still beat analyst estimates, and its shares rose more than 7 per cent.

From Thursday (a brief):

New York Times Co. said yesterday that fourth-quarter earnings plunged 48 per cent and online sales fell for the first time as the recession depressed spending by advertisers.

The Thursday item differed by not mentioning beating analysts' expectations.

David Akin shook the Twittersphere to its core with this tweet tonight:

davidakin I'm de-twittering. http://tinyurl.com/bg6a3m about 1 hour ago from web

From ctvtoronto.ca:

A former Ontario NDP finance minister lambasted for running a deficit to fight the recession in 1991 has given a thumbs-up to a Conservative federal deficit budget authored by a disciple of the "Common Sense Revolution."

Floyd Laughren told ctvtoronto.ca on Wednesday that he thinks the budget of federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is "on the right track.

Globeandmail.com took another stab at live-blogging, this time with the federal budget (I previously blogged about their effort on the St. Andrew's subway shooting).

Your genial hosts were Report on Business columnist Andrew Willis, editorial page editor John Geiger and communities editor Mathew Ingram.

A commenter named cimmetry made a few observations.

At 3:23 p.m., Ingram said the following:

Mathew Ingram:  @Cimmetry: we are looking for commenters from Twitter that we can add as well as the live-blog continues

So Cimmetry got a promotion! He became a contributor to the live blog.

There is a Tim Hortons about to open at Bathurst Street and Queen Street West.

I seem to remember an outraged reaction the last time Timmy tried to move in (2002 rings a bell; it was looking at a space at Queen and Tecumseth currently occupied by a meat-heavy resto named Vdara).

No one seems to be chaining themselves to the chain's doors this time around.

Afterthought

What the hell. Hero Burger is a chain. So is Pizzaiolo. And TD Canada Trust. And Second Cup. And Starbucks. So why not Tim's?

A new report suggests the hangover from our carbon binge might last way longer than we first thought, and that a quick recovery from the effects of the rapid rise in CO2 concentration in the Earth's atmosphere isn't going to happen.

From The Canadian Press via TheStar.com: (Jan. 26)

Bail hearings in cases where there's no threat of tainting a jury pool shouldn't be placed under a publication ban just because the accused asks for one, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled in a decision released today.

Toronto Star publisher John Cruickshank used Monday's paper to announce some changes in the paper's design.

This is a bizarre story about two New York tenants whose lease wasn't renewed after the building management company learned they had griped in an online forum -- open only to other tenants.

Saw this via Twitter:

BreakingNewsOn At least 10 people have been seriously injured after being shot inside Coleman Federal Prison in Florida, BNO News has learned. (corr. name) about 1 hour agofrom BNO Headquarters

That's the home-away-from-home for one Lord Black of Crossharbour (aka Inmate No. 18330-424), but it's a huge complex, so Black probably didn't get injured.

Update

CNN reports that the shots were fired by prison staff to break up a large-scale fight in the high-security unit. I believe Black is in one of the lower-security units, which weren't affected.

Eight inmates were wounded, one by a prison staffer's bullets. There were seven other shooting/stabbing victims.