News & Media Briefs (5#) -

As they work industriously to turn our newspapers into little more than thinly disguised junk mail, the Media Corporations which own most of them continue to hum along in their august realms unfazed by public opinion.

See if you can match the Media Corp CEO's salary
with the number of layoffs at his company:

:: VF's Juli Weiner put together this little quiz.

# The Wrong Faisal Shahzad! It's a hazard of
the digital age, Matthew Shaer tells us at the CSM.

# Mosque to be built near World Trade Center site.

# SoFlo Cigarette Violence: The recent rise in price for cigarettes is followed by a rise in violence linked to getting them. A man in Miami approached a nightclubber standing outside and asked him for a cigarette. When he was told there were no cigarettes, the man punched the nightclubber in the head. The clubber died later in hospital.

# Non-Latin web addresses on Internet start today.

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