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Notes from WIRED Editor Chris Anderson’sTalk on Digital Age Business Models and his new book FREE: The Future of Radical Price

Newspapers and journalists provide a check on power and those who would rewrite history; Armenian genocide coverage at the beginning of the 20th century is an example of well-documented journalism.

Articles on AIG bonuses, the continuing downward spiral in the newspaper business which threatens to constrict public access to information, and dangerous mainstream ideas for U.S. international policy are all in last week’s Sunroom Desk links.

Reviewing a local blogger’s critique of the Glendale News Press in the context of the rapid downturn in the newspaper business.

Last week’s Paperweight articles all cover the highly uncertain business climate and its effect on Glendale, California.

Prospects for print media and book publishing changed dramatically for the worse in 2008.