"All the news that's fit to print" was once the newspaper man's slogan. Now, with news-junkies turning increasingly to the net for their daily fix of world events, papers are beginning to feel the pinch. tags news internet*Includes video report on right of article* picked by thecritters 3 years ago |
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After the Daily News wrote about a disabled veteran's dream of seeing the Yanks in the World Series, two dozen readers offered him either tickets or cash toward buying one. picked by suebe 4 weeks ago 1 comments edit related share sports |
Very interesting, very different social news site for strange, funny, scandalous and generally non-boring news. picked by norequest 3 years ago 3 comments edit related share weird |
Silly & wierd news clips from around the world - Ex. A brothel in Germany hopes to capitalize on the growing number of retirees by offering them a 50 percent discount in the afternoon. picked by susiesunshine 3 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
News Corp chairman plans to charge readers of the websites of all his newspapers within the next 12 months. 6 comments edit related share worldWill this work? Doomed to failure I think. picked by topofall 4 months ago |
Scott Moore is in charge of news at Yahoo! Broadcast television still reaches more people in a single hour; 6 million viewers at a time will tune in to the CBS Evening News. But over the course of a month, the online portals are providing news to more people. picked by hisidea 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
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News At Seven automatically gathers news with relevant images, videos and opinions from blogs and combines them into a virtual newscast. picked by TheStep 3 years ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
Think the news is boring? Well here is a site that may change your mind. It is a community driven experience – imagine fantasy sports meets the evening news. Roleplaying, prediction of real world events and more are combined into a new fun learning experience. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago 1 comments edit related share world |
This article starts with the sentence "The internet is killing newspapers and giving birth to a new sort of news business." 4 comments edit related share plime.comBearing in mind what plime is, I was very surprised not to see this recent article posted here. Did I miss it? A couple of very important factors are mentioned... picked by rambler 6 months ago |
The Onion News Network has set the standard for globe-encompassing 24-hour television news since it was founded in December, 1892. The network boasts channels in 171 languages and can be viewed in 4.2 billion households in 811 countries. picked by 2manyusernames 3 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
From story: 1 comments edit related share plime.com"He chose a 42-inch katana, a Japanese samurai sword, and went inside to confront Lee Alexander, a 25-year-old ranch hand from Polk County who was convicted in 2000 of a lewd and lascivious act on a person under 16. Less than 15 minutes later, Alexander was dead." picked by indierockcafe 3 years ago |
As of 3:30 pm PST, Russian officials say 78 bodies of miners have been recovered from the mine site explosion in Siberia, but fear casualities will increase. picked by indierockcafe 3 years ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
No one likes to give bad news. What if there was a better way to give out bad news? What if there was a robot that could tell people things they didn't want to hear? picked by bernardblack 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share entertainment |
News stories from around the world that got little attention. picked by wags273 2 years ago 4 comments edit related share world |
Following the revelations about phone tapping by The News Of The World made in the Guardian, police are now investigating 3000 potential incidents perpetrated by the scandal rag. Luckily for them, most of the work will have been done in the investigation they previously suppressed. picked by pocksucket 5 months ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
Here’s a collection of 115 social bookmark and news sites ranked by PageRank, number of links and value of each site. picked by Bearsuit 2 years ago 7 comments edit related share plime.com |
Americans' knowledge of national and international affairs has changed little in two decades despite the emergence of 24-hour cable news and the Internet as major news sources. picked by Bornbad 3 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
"If you’re looking for some good news in these days of hurricanes, insurgency and high oil prices, go to goodnewsblog.com for links to stories that are uplifting but not maudlin." - Newsweek Blog Watch, Sep. 12, 2005 picked by kissmenow 3 years ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
From the 100th Petshotel to a girl who had an allergic reaction and got her boyfriend arrested, this is your (almost) daily news source from Blogspot.com picked by Blankspace73 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share weird |
Any time the balloon of pomposity, dishonesty, bigotry, narrow-mindedness, and disingenuousness of public figures is pricked by clever, entertaining satire, I think it is a service. picked by afeldman 3 years ago 4 comments edit related share plime.com |
The profusion of international news available on the Internet has made it increasingly difficult for the average American to ignore the rest of the world, a trend researchers say threatens Americans' long, proud history of disregarding anything not about them. picked by kamaloo 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share entertainment |