15 Best Skylines in the World
The CIA World Factbook maintains a page about the entire world, which seems like it was meant to be read by aliens about to visit Earth for the first time.
Even with the encroachment of blogs, craigslist, and online stock listings, James Surowiecki says the newspaper business is actually not a bad business to be in these days. "Newspapers are classic cash cows: solidly profitable businesses in a stagnant industry."
[e também: "Readership fell faster between 1970 and 1990?by fifteen per cent?than it has since, and even this audience drop-off is considerably less than what network news has endured in recent decades. Furthermore, a good deal of the decline can be chalked up to the life-style changes that killed the evening paper: since 1980, the circulation of morning papers has actually risen by almost sixty per cent.
Meanwhile, newspapers have minimized the damage by getting better at making money off the readers they?ve kept."]
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