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Updated at 11:44 a.m. ET on Aug. 14: The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky., is among the first newspapers reporting layoffs on Thursday. Earlier: A Maryland publisher told employees late Wednesday afternoon that Gannett is eliminating 1,000 newspaper jobs, or about 3% of the troubled newspaper division's workforce -- and that about 600 employees are being laid off, a Gannett Blog reader says. The reader provided a copy of a memo that Daily Times Publisher Rick Jensen e-mailed about 4 p.m. today at the paper in Salisbury. "Across Gannett’s Community Publishing division, about 1,000 positions will be eliminated -- about 3%...

<p>I can't imagine the Obama campaign is psyched that this USA Today photo of an anti-death penalty judge in Ohio shows two posters in his office — one of Che and one of Barack.</p>

The Father of Capitalism, Adam Smith, is probably turning over in his grave as we speak. The day after the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), perverted the definition of free market to advocate his global warming platform, along comes left-wing billionaire George Soros suggesting traditional free-market theory is flawed in the May 13 USA Today. The profile by David J. Lynch touted Soros' “theory of reflexivity,” which asserts classic free market theory is flawed because it assumes everyone acts rationally “to maximize their individual welfare or profits." "Of course, real life never matches up exactly with the...

It is unfortunate when major media discuss constitutional issues yet exhibit zero understanding of why we have a Constitution and what it means. The latest example is the cover story in USA Today on 12 May, 2008, entitled “Reagan's influence lives on in U.S. courts.” The general premise of the article is absolutely true. The influence of judges appointed by any President extends far beyond his term and often beyond his lifetime. However, the article gets lost in discussing why that’s so, and what it means. In 1,572 words about the interpretation of the Constitution, the article never even uses...

A federal judge held a former USA Today reporter in contempt of court Friday and ordered her to pay up to $5,000 a day if she refuses to identify her sources for stories about a former Army scientist under scrutiny in the 2001 anthrax attacks. U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said Toni Locy must pay fines out of her own pocket as long as she continues to defy his order that she cooperate in scientist Steven J. Hatfill's lawsuit against the government. Hatfill accuses the Justice Department of violating his privacy by discussing the investigation with reporters. Locy had...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge says he will hold a former USA Today reporter in contempt if she continues refusing to identify sources for stories about a former Army scientist under scrutiny in the 2001 anthrax attacks. At a hearing Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said that reporter Toni Locy (LOW-see) must cooperate with Steven J. Hatfill in his lawsuit against the government. Hatfill is suing the Justice Department, saying the agency violated the federal Privacy Act by giving the media information about the FBI's investigation of him. In addition to Locy, the judge is considering whether...

Newspaper publisher and broadcaster Gannett Co Inc (NYSE:GCI - News) posted a 31 percent decline in quarterly profit on Friday due to lower broadcast and print ad sales and an impairment charge. Gannett said it faced a "softer" economic environment, echoing the comments of other U.S. newspaper publishers this week. The USA Today publisher said fourth-quarter net income fell to $245.3 million, or $1.06 per share, from $353.5 million, or $1.51 per share, a year earlier. Revenue fell 12 percent to $1.9 billion, below the average Wall Street forecast of $1.99 billion, according to Reuters Estimates. Excluding an impairment charge...

Iowa was barely over caucusing when USA Today Editors decided they knew better than Republicans in the other 49 states and better than the not yet chosen delegates to the 2008 Republican Party National Convention, who is worthy to continue the race for the Republican Party Presidential Nomination. My question for the USA Today Editors is, who in the name of democracy made you the politburo? Click link to read the USA Today Editorial Iowa results hold lessons for the long road ahead Note: The remainder of this post is a re-write of my comments to the Editors of USA...

Please vote this gun issue question with USA Today. It will only take a few seconds of your time. Then pass the link on to all the pro gun folks you know. Hopefully these results will be published later this month. This upcoming year will become critical for gun owners with the Supreme Court accepting the District of Columbia case against the right for individuals to bear arms. First - vote on this one. Second - launch it to all the pro-gun folks and have THEM vote - then we will see if the results get published. To vote in...

Here is the kind of story that really proves how little the MSM bothers to research things, how they often simply print glorified press releases without doing any real "journalism," and how the defective end product gets picked up and regurgitated like it is suddenly a "fact." In this one we have the story of "the Lakota Sioux Indians" announcing that "they" have withdrawn from agreed upon treaties with the US government and that they are now a sovereign nation, no longer to be called citizens of the USA. Problem is "the Lakota Sioux Indians" that have made this announcement...

USA Today will no longer be printed in Hawaii and its distribution will be significantly scaled back after Dec. 28. The nation's largest circulation newspaper, which had been printed and distributed by The Honolulu Advertiser for three years, will stop delivering to hotel rooms, subscribers and hundreds of news racks around the Islands at the end of the month. Instead, newspapers will be flown in from the West Coast every weekday afternoon for sale at a limited number of locations, mostly at airports. The move was made to cut costs. Advertising revenue at USA Today was down 6.1 percent in...

Gannett Sees 4Q in Range of Wall Street 11:16 AMNEW YORK (AP) - Gannett Co., the largest newspaper publisher in the country and owner of USA Today, on Wednesday guided for fourth-quarter profit in range of Wall Street's expectations. AP

The websites of CNN and USAToday joined their "Big Three" network brethren in covering the march in Jena, Louisiana to support the so-called Jena 6, while at the same time, either burying mention of the teenager who was beaten by the six high school students, or not mentioning him at all. CNN.com’s report, in which CNN correspondents Susan Roesgen, Tony Harris, Kyra Philips and Eliott McLaughlin were contributors, didn’t mention Justin Barker until the twenty-second paragraph of the story. The teens were initially charged with attempted murder after they allegedly knocked out Justin Barker -- a white classmate -- while stomping...

Can the Second Coming be far distant? Given the glimpses of truth beginning to filter through the pages of darkness typically published by the Main Stream Media, one wonders. First, in June, The New York Times surprises all several hundred of its remaining readers with a major news story reporting the developing sense of peace spreading across the battlefield that was Anbar province. Anbar, for nearly three years it was regarded as the most hopeless space and people in all Iraq. It was hopeless. A year after putting into effect the strategies developed by General David Petraeus, Anbar knows evenings,...

Cannot post due to Navy Times copyright whining. Story deals with new movie dramatizing the story of LTJG Dieter Dengler, one of just a few to escape from a Communist POW camp. Critics of movie claim it is dishonest and distorted. Link

HONOLULU -- The violent attack on a military couple two weeks ago in Waikele is making national news. A story about the road rage altercation is on the front page of Wednesday's USA Today under the headline: "Racial Tensions are simmering in Hawaii's Melting Pot." Police arrested a Native Hawaiian man and his teenage son in the attack of the Caucasian couple after a fender bender in the Waikele Shopping Center parking lot.

Gasoline and crude oil prices are both on a downward trend and some media outlets even are reporting the story. But USA Today’s Barbara Hagenbaugh presented a negative spin on the positive development and failed to disclose her source also linked lower gas prices before the election to a possible conspiracy. “[D]rivers who expect gas prices to fall as sharply as oil prices in recent weeks will likely be disappointed,” the paper’s Barbara Hagenbaugh lamented in the first paragraph of her January 16 front page story. According to the AAA’s FuelGaugeReport.com Web site, regular unleaded is down to $2.22 a...

The Wall Street Journal, whose wide pages and text-rich look have long been an icon of the American newspaper business, is about to undergo several changes that include cutting three inches off its width. Along with the size reduction, which is equivalent to about one of its columns, the newspaper will add more color and graphical elements, including greater use of photographs. It also will have fewer stories "jump" inside the newspaper. The changes, which take effect Jan. 2, were to be unveiled at a press conference in New York on Monday. Robert Christie, a spokesman for Dow Jones &...

Kudos to USA Today, As Paper Recognizes America's 21st Century Heroes In a fitting Veterans Day tribute, this morning?s USA Today recognizes America?s ?21st Century Heroes,? a relatively small group of U.S. military servicemen who received our country's highest honors for their valor in Iraq and Afghanistan. Good for USA Today. There hasn?t been much coverage of America's military heroes ? indeed, back in June the Media Research Center noted that a three-week time period saw three times more network TV coverage of allegations of military misconduct than coverage of America?s top military heroes over a five year period. This...

The MSM has had a field day trumpeting an impending editorial in "military newspapers" calling for Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's resignation. But as NewsBusters John Stephenson and Michael Bates have documented here and here, here's what the liberal media didn't disclose: Despite the official-sounding ring of "military newspapers," these are commercial, private-sector operations owned by Gannett, the chain whose leading outlet is the left-leaning USA Today. The editorial was roughly as representative of the official military view on the Secretary as the New York Times' latest anti-Rumsfeld rant.While the MSM tried to multiply the significance of the editorial by mentioning that...

UPI Headline, and many other publications.."Military mags to call for Rumsfeld. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Four publications of the Military Times Media Group plan to call on U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to resign, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The Army Times, Air Force Times, Navy Times and Marine Corps Times will issue the call in an editorial scheduled to run Monday, the newspaper said. The Chronicle published the text of the editorial on its Web site Friday. The editorial says the truth about the war in Iraq "been difficult to come by from leaders in Washington."...

<p>Advanced copies of the Military Times editorial to be published on Monday have been sent out to several media sources.</p> <p>Gannett Publications material removed.</p> <p>Gannett Publications has requested that Free Republic allow only a link and title from any of their material to be posted on Free Republic.</p>

In another grand example of "journalistic" integrity, USA Today has declared the Iraq war a total failure even as we are still in the middle of it all. With that "truth" reported, I'd like to have their crystal ball to get the next lottery numbers, too. But, they aren't the only ones. We hear leftists and anti-War on Terror types repeatedly claim that the whole action and subsequent attempt to build an Iraqi democracy was "clearly wrong". We hear that it should never have happened, that our actions were somehow illegitimate, or that we hadn't the right to invade Iraq...

NEW YORK, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Gannett Co. Inc, the largest U.S. newspaper publisher, reported a lower third-quarter profit on Wednesday because of stock options expensing. Gannett, which publishes USA Today and 89 other local daily papers, said net income fell to $261.4 million from $297 million in the same quarter a year ago. Earnings from continuing operations were $1.11 a share, compared with $1.13 a share a year ago. Analysts expected $1.11 per share, according to Reuters Estimates. Stock options expensing cost the company $6.4 million, or 3 cents a share, after taxes. Gannett said per-share earnings would have...

USA Today gives Condi 'demon eyes,' pulls photo Paper admits it gave secretary of state'unnatural appearance' in Web edition Posted: October 26, 20055:10 p.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Manipulated Associated Press photo of Condoleezza Rice published online by USA Today USA Today pulled a photograph of Condoleezza Rice from its website after a weblog revealed it was manipulated, giving the secretary of state a menacing, demon-eyesing stare. Original AP photo The remarkable changes were first noted by a weblog called The Pen, which cited an original version of the Associated Press photograph. After a host of weblogs highlighted the photo, the nationwide...

by Mark Finkelstein July 3, 2006 Readers of these columns might have noticed that I occasionally include at the foot the fact that I live in 'the liberal haven of Ithaca, NY.' To give you a flavor for what I'm talking about, consider the today's op-ed page in my hometown daily, the Ithaca Journal. The Journal is a Gannett newspaper. That's the chain [lead by USA Today] that, as I've documented, allows to edit the news someone who believes calling VP Cheney 'Satan' makes for the best commencement speech ever. Back to this morning's Journal. There are two op-eds, by...

Leslie Cauley, the USA Today reporter who last week “broke” the news that three major U.S. telecommunications companies were assisting the National Security Agency in building a database to more easily track any communications by potential terrorists, is listed as a donor to former House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt... A search found a listing for "writer and journalist" Leslie Cauley, indicating she gave $2,000 to Gephardt on June 30, 2003, when Gephardt was running for the Democratic presidential nomination. And that seems not to be her only tie to Democratic politics ... Cauley's link to a Democratic campaign seems likely...

Harry Jaffe of The Washingtonian has written that USA Today reporter Leslie Cauley’s story about how the NSA collected “average citizens’ phone records from their telecommunications companies, like AT&T and Verizon,” was a real “scoop.” He says other papers have been scrambling to keep up, and that USA Today has arrived on the national scene with this blockbuster. But it looks like Jaffe—and USA Today—may have gotten the basic facts wrong. The USA Today story, based entirely on anonymous sources, has been seriously challenged. We should be asking: a scoop of what? Something about this scoop doesn’t smell right. Cauley...

 Let me ask you a question: are you making phone calls that you would be ashamed of if the government knew about them? Think about the phone calls you make every day and ask yourself if you really believe someone in the National Security Agency would be able to use those calls against you. First of all, let’s be clear; they are not listening in on the calls; they are merely collecting data that tells them that calls were made from one number to another. The data will be fed into highly sophisticated computers, and used to establish patterns of...

WE ARE IN the first war of the Information Age, and we have a critical advantage over our enemy: We are far better at gathering intelligence. It's an advantage we must utilize, and it's keeping us safe. But every time classified national security information is leaked, our ability to gather information on those who would do us harm is eroded. We suffered a setback Thursday when USA Today ran a front-page story alleging that the National Security Agency was collecting domestic phone records. This article hurt our efforts to protect Americans by giving the enemy valuable insights into the Terrorist...

U.S. Supreme Court SMITH v. MARYLAND, 442 U.S. 735 (1979) 442 U.S. 735 SMITH v. MARYLAND. CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF MARYLAND. No. 78-5374. Argued March 28, 1979. Decided June 20, 1979. The telephone company, at police request, installed at its central offices a pen register to record the numbers dialed from the telephone at petitioner's home. Prior to his robbery trial, petitioner moved to suppress "all fruits derived from" the pen register. The Maryland trial court denied this motion, holding that the warrantless installation of the pen register did not violate the Fourth Amendment. Petitioner was convicted,...

The USA Today "scoop" on the NSA's massive telephone surveillance program isn't really news at all - though liberal media outlets have been blaring the story as a shocking revelation all Thursday morning. The Agency, the paper announced ominously, "has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans . . . The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans — most of whom aren't suspected of any crime." But as NewsMax noted in December - back when the New York Times tried to...

Though in constant, inflation-adjusted dollars -- the only way to measure prices over time -- a price of a barrel of oil will have to exceed $87 to reach a record high, the broadcast networks have been falsely trumpeting nominal oil prices as a "record high." On Wednesday night, for instance, CBS Evening News anchor Russ Mitchell inaccurately asserted that "oil prices hit another record high today, closing above 72 bucks a barrel." NBC's Brian Williams wrongly claimed that oil prices were "surging to yet another record high close. The gain on the day 82 cents per barrel. Closing price...

READING HABITS: 1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country. 2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country. 3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the country and who are very good at crossword puzzles. 4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don't really understand The New York Times. They do, however, like their statistics shown in pie charts. 5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running...

Gannett Co. reported its earnings fell 9.2% in the fourth quarter, due primarily to weak ad sales at its U.K. newspapers and a drop in television revenue. The nation's largest newspaper publisher, which publishes USA Today and 90 other daily papers, said net income dropped to $343.4 million, or $1.44 a share, from $378.1 million, or $1.47 a share a year earlier. Earnings were at the high end of Gannett's forecast of $1.40 to $1.44 a share, and beat analysts' consensus estimate of $1.41 a share, according to a survey by Thomson First Call. Revenue increased 5.7% to $2.05 billion...

I spoke with a person who just got back from Iraq. We spoke this past week. I asked him about the Army Times magazine. He told me that he no longer reads it. He said it was run by a group that runs a MSM newspaper that is pretty left leaning. They seem to run under Military Times, but there is a parent company. The soldier told me he there was a USA Today reporter asking him questions. He said the questions were very left leaning and when he asked when his answers to the questions would be printed, he...

<p>I've seen images rolling in from Iraq, and I am stunned at just how little I care. I don't have an empathetic bone in my body and am amazed at just how truly unmoved I am. I see these purportedly "iconic" images and I realize — and readily admit — the stories coming out of Iraq are not worth the life of one American soldier. The war isn't worth the tears of one American mother, nor the sorrow of one American widow.</p>

As reported yesterday by NewsBusters, a brand new ABC News/TIME poll depicted Iraqis as being very optimistic about themselves and the future of their country. The Associated Press via USA Today is sharing this information with its readers by focusing attention on the negatives first. The article, entitled “Most Iraqis Oppose U.S. Troops, Poll Says,” began: “Most Iraqis disapprove of the presence of U.S. forces in their country, yet they are optimistic about Iraq's future and their own personal lives, according to a new poll." Then the article addressed the positives:

Gannett Nov. Revenue Drops 2.1% Published: December 08, 2005 10:20 AM ET MCLEAN, Va. (AP) Gannett Co., the nation's largest newspaper publisher and owner of several television stations, said Thursday that revenue fell 2.1% during November compared to last year, as lower advertising demand in its broadcasting group and British newspapers hurt results. At USA Today, ad revenue dropped 7.7%, as the number of paid ad pages fell to 345 from 412. Gannett said November revenue fell to $656.6 million from $670.9 million on a pro forma basis, which assumes that all properties the company owned were owned in both...

MCLEAN, Va. (AP) Gannett Co., the nation's largest newspaper publisher and owner of several television stations, said Thursday that revenue fell 2.1% during November compared to last year, as lower advertising demand in its broadcasting group and British newspapers hurt results. At USA Today, ad revenue dropped 7.7%, as the number of paid ad pages fell to 345 from 412. Gannett said November revenue fell to $656.6 million from $670.9 million on a pro forma basis, which assumes that all properties the company owned were owned in both periods. The publisher of USA Today, the largest U.S. newspaper, said newspaper...

The one-paragraph story appeared on page 1 D in USA Today and the headline was "Gallup Survey: Trust in media is growing." But it should have said: "Trust in media is 20 points behind 1976 levels." That's what the survey showed. Isn't it interesting how the media will publicize President Bush's falling approval ratings but will not emphasize their own? The "growing" trust in the media consisted of confidence in the media rising from 44 percent last year to 50 percent in the latest survey. But it was 54 percent in 2003, 68 percent in 1972, and 72 percent in...

Link only: Bush sets out to salvage 2nd term

Anybody see the difference between the two photos below? -- OJ Time Mage Mug Shot Pic Left Out For Blogger's Bandwith -- You guessed it. The Time Magazine version on the right was deliberately darkened to make OJ look more menacing, because as any liberal journalist knows, black is bad. The whole black community was up in arms about this scandal – as well they should have been. Under the heat of protest, Time issued an apology. Now, Anybody see the difference between the two photos below? You guessed it. The USA Today version on the right was deliberately altered...

Visiting the USA Today home page today, I saw towards the bottom the category "By the Numbers" which say "Bush approval drops to 39% Poll: President's rating hits an all-time low." The USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup poll is from October 17. This poll was biased, because on the page appears this sentence: Of those who were polled, 36% said they were Democrats, 30% Republican and 33% independent. I was suspicious, because I'd heard that the poll numbers went upwards slightly. So I confirmed it by visiting RealClearPolitics.com's Poll page which demonstrates that a newer USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup poll taken on October 25 shows...

October 26, 2005 MSM Makeover: Condi Rice Filed Under: Humor, Media This morning, Michelle Malkin points out the following circumstances regarding a recent photo in USA Today.“Notice anything peculiar about her eyes?,� asks Malkin.“No, Condi isn’t possessed; the photo was manipulated.�This news comes courtesy of From The Pen, which found a pre-doctored version of the Associated Press photo on Yahoo! España:What they didn’t find is the latest photo “revealing� who’s sitting behind Condi in the photo. By using propriety photographic algorithms, we were able to focus in on the background. (If only Dick Morris knew how to use photoshop)That might...

Includes many updates by Michelle Malkin DEMONIZING CONDI By Michelle Malkin   ·   October 26, 2005 06:41 AM ***scroll down for updates...345pm EDT flash: THE PHOTO HAS BEEN REMOVED from USA Today's site with an editor's note...I'll be talking about more unhinged examples of Condi hatred next week. More details here.*** Check out the photo of Condoleezza Rice that was published by USA Today last week: Notice anything peculiar about her eyes? No, Condi isn't possessed; the photo was manipulated. This news comes courtesy of From The Pen, which found a pre-doctored version of the Associated Press photo on Yahoo! España:...

DEMONIZING CONDI By Michelle Malkin   ·   October 26, 2005 06:41 AM Check out the photo of Condoleezza Rice that was published by USA Today last week: Notice anything peculiar about her eyes? (Click on the Extended Entry for an explanation.)No, Condi isn't possessed; the photo was manipulated. This news comes courtesy of From The Pen, which found a pre-doctored version of the Associated Press photo on Yahoo! España: Ask USA Today's Graphics and Photos Managing Editor, Richard Curtis (rcurtis@usatoday.com), what the ^$%#@+! is going on. *** Related: Katherine Harris vs. the Photo DoctorsTime's photo distortions

(CNN) -- Only one in 10 Americans said they believe Bush administration officials did nothing illegal or unethical in connection with the leaking of a CIA operative's identity, according to a national poll released Tuesday. Thirty-nine percent said some administration officials acted illegally in the matter, in which the identity of Valerie Plame, a CIA operative, was revealed. The same percentage of respondents in the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll said Bush administration officials acted unethically, but did nothing illegal.

Shortly, the 2,000th death of an American serviceman or woman will occur in Iraq. That will generate an orgy of coverage in the American press on how “deadly” the war is. Sidebars will suggest that citizens are becoming “increasingly doubtful” about the conduct of the war. This Newsbusters article denounces that coverage as dishonest, in advance. I wrote on 24 April, 2004, that the War on Terror is the LEAST bloody war in the history of the United States, measured by deaths per month. This is true going back to the Revolutionary War, even though the nation’s population then was...

...More than 70 percent of what's broadcast on Arab TV stations... is U.S.-made; 80 percent of the films shown in Arab cinemas are made in Hollywood.... More than half of all major articles in the two main pan-Arab daily newspapers come from The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek and Time magazines.... ...Stroll in the streets where books and video and audio tapes are on sale... 90 percent of the items vilifying America come from American, French and British authors. No Arab anti-American has produced anything like the conspiracy theories that American intellectuals...