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We all know that the Globe is on life support, or minimum wage, or something like that. To add insult to injury, Jack Shafer reminds us in Slate (owned by the struggling WaPo) that Jack Welch of GE thought about buying the paper (now valued at barely $113 million) for a cool $600 million just three years ago. Oddly enough, Dan Kennedy reveals that Jack Welch is now tweeting (somewhat ironically, perhaps) about the NYT's "brutish labor practices." What a show! more ›

Slate's Jack Shafer wants to bring back yellow journalism. Could sensationalistic muckraking be the future of the nonprinted word? Clay Shirky asserted this month that "Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism." He didn't say yellow journalism specifically, but maybe there's something to that argument. Even as newspapers have slid, the demand for off-color items of interest has certainly grown: witness the recently-31 Perez Hilton's fame or the insane amount of visitors to TMZ. more ›