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WHEN EUROPEAN germs wiped out Indians, at least that aspect of conquest was unintentional. Burger King has no such excuse. The modern colonizers currently have an ad campaign called "Whopper Virgins." Commercials are running during televised sports events, and the company has a nearly eight-minute video on its website. In a bizarre parody of an actual documentary, Burger King sent a crew out to remote Hmong parts of Thailand, Inuit parts of Greenland, and a village in Romania where people have both never seen a hamburger nor ever heard of one through advertising

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Times Co. on Wednesday said it planned to cut 190 jobs, or about 2 percent of its work force, including reductions at its flagship New York Times newspaper. The company said about two-thirds of the job losses will occur at The New York Times, with less than 25 of the cuts coming from the newsroom, where it said a voluntary reduction program will be in place. Other job losses will occur at its New England Media Group, which includes The Boston Globe newspaper.

Worsening woes for new liberal radio network First Air America had trouble staying on the air in Los Angeles and Chicago, and now it’s having trouble keeping its bosses, including one of the founders of the liberal radio network. With the Los Angeles and Chicago situations still up in the air, CEO and co-founder Mark Walsh and director of programming David Logan are jumping ship. Logan will be replaced by Lizz Winstead, a former producer for Comedy Central and current on-air personality with Air America. So far there has been no replacement named for Walsh.. Air America’s general counsel David...