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The person who wins the election is America’s president
Now that the histrionics of presidential election cycle are hopefully winding down, some good advice from Knoxville blogger Glenn Reynolds in a Forbes column: We don’t have to agree on issues, or on leaders. But if we can’t agree that a free and fair election can produce a legitimate president even when it’s not the…
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The attention is apt
The Knoxville News Sentinel / knoxnews and E.W. Scripps were getting some coverage over the weekend on the rollout of the Yahoo APT ad platform and new approaches of selling online advertising in local markets.. New York Times: Scripps Tries to Steer Local Ads to Papers’ Sites Paidcontent.org: Scripps Overhauls Web Ads; BusinessTargets Get Smaller,…
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The real rising political star is not Palin, but the Internet
Nearly three times as many people ages 18 to 29 mention the internet as mention newspapers as a main source of election news (49% vs. 17%). Nearly the opposite is true among those over age 50: some 22% rely on the internet for election news while 39% look to newspapers. Compared with 2004, use of…