Gannett Co Inc shares soared 27 percent to a five-year high after the largest U.S. newspaper chain struck a $1.5 billion deal for Dallas television company Belo Corp, dramatically increasing TV’s importance to Gannett’s results. - http://huff.to/19uxEUU
Belo itself split into separate newspaper and TV businesses in 2008. The newspaper business, A.H. Belo Corp, is not affected by Thursday’s deal.
Coffee is good for your brain and might stave off dementia and Alzheimer’s
Odds are you look at your smartphone about 150 times a day. Sound like a lot? Well, after you reach for it 6 times for news, 9 times to check Facebook and other social media and 18 times to check the time, it starts to add up.
One in nine of the nation’s bridges has been rated as structurally deficient, the American Society of Civil Engineers 2013 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure reported. The Seattle chapter of the ASCE awarded the state’s bridges a C- grade. - http://huff.to/Zhn8wE
If you’re under 13, you’re breaking the law when you read The New York Times
The news is buried in a local newspaper’s story about a 25-minute long school board meeting in Steubenville, Ohio, that addressed a number of personnel matters. Among them was a two-year “administrative contract” for Reno Saccoccia, identified as director of administrative services.
Saccoccia is better known as Steubenville’s winning high school football coach. Some have alleged that he may have tried to cover up the rape of a 16-year-old West Virginia girl by two star football players on his team; at the least, he may have failed to report a case of sexual abuse as required by Ohio law of teachers and coaches.
The pro-Assad hackers hacked the AP - http://huff.to/17Ob5W3
Social media and the stock market went wild, briefly, on Tuesday when this (hacked) Associated Press tweet appeared around 1 p.m.: “Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured.”
The AP took down its Twitter account and quickly announced it had been hacked.
Rest assured, there’s been no attack on the White House — and aides say President Obama is busy at work.
“The president is fine,” spokesman Jay Carney said. “I was just with him.”
The Dow Jones industrial average plunged more than 128 points in seconds after the report. It recovered just as quickly when the report was found to be false.
And so, as we attempt to begin the healing process, let us not bicker over such trivial matters as the actual death toll and what exactly happened at yesterday’s bombing. After all, is it really important, in the aftermath of an event so disastrous and sad, to pick apart the so-called information surrounding this horrific situation and find out what actually happened?
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