A personal column, with more questions than answers, from a pretty smart media guy: Let's not bury the lead: This is a rough time for the newspaper business, a rough time for The Washington Post and a rough time for me.... The more than 100 journalists who have just taken early-retirement packages are voluntarily accepting a generous offer as the company trims its payroll -- a situation far better than at newspapers that have resorted to layoffs.
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Who pays for this blog? I receive no fees, considerations, etc. etc. for the posts on this blog nor do I have any plans to accept any. My salary is paid by Canwest Global Communications Corp. I work for that company as the Ottawa-based National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service. The blog publishing platform used here is called Blogware and it's developed by Tucows Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. My use of Blogware should not be taken as an endorsement of that company. Like all Blogware users, I do not pay any fees for the use of this service. I participate in program. Google pays me some money and, for that, I give Google some space on this site to display ads. Google sells those ads and Google, not me, decides what advertising content you are seeing. I do not filter these ads and take no responsibility for them. Readers should not assume I endorse any of the products or services advertised here. If you think other disclosures are appropriate in this space, I'd like to hear from you. All of my contact details are always at www.davidakin.com You can read more about this section |
Sunday, May 25
President Yushchenko: Then and now -- in Canada
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DavidAkin
on Sun 25 May 2008 10:36 PM EDT
. . . Speaking in an exclusive interview on the eve of a long-awaited visit to Canada, the 54-year-old Yushchenko said the physical toll of the treatments for his poisoning all but consumed him during his first 30 months in office. "I'll tell you one secret – how to make your body pool its energy and strength," Yushchenko said, calling the period from 2005 to mid-2007 the "biggest overload on my health" because of a punishing schedule of operations. more » |
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