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That’s not a hole in your pocket, it’s a gas pump
You think gas is high now. Here’s oilman T. Boone Pickens’ prediction: Fast Company: What will happen in the next five years?Pickens: Demand will go up, and price will go up. Fast Company: Take a stab at what we’ll be paying at the pump in five years. Pickens: Oh hell, that’s so far out. Maybe…
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The Lake Wobegon audience
Nielsen’s @Plan: Those who visit newspaper Web sites are more likely to have household incomes greater than $100,000, when compared to people who visit other sites online. Those who visit newspaper Web sites are also more likely to be in professional/managerial positions. Newspaper Web site visitors are significantly more likely to seek out political/campaign information…
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Of voters and rabbit ears
Charles Warner, who teaches at The New School in New York, and is the Goldenson Chair Emeritus at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, has an explanation at his Media Curmudgeon blog of Hillary Clinton’s wins in West Virginia and Kentucky: I can’t imagine the folks in Appalachia grooving to iWilli’s “Yes We…