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Recall on fireworks that make ‘loud bang’
Consumer Products Safety Commission recalls fireworks product that “can produce a loud bang and unexpectedly scatter debris, posing an injury hazard to the user and bystanders.“ I guess that’s a problem?
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A plea from newsrooms
Sign on icemaker in the newsroom at the Knoxville News Sentinel. The newsroom is in the midst of a reorganization and redefinition that is called “transformation.” And, no, we haven’t lost our sense of humor.
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Frightsizing potential
Rightsizing sounds better to corp execs than “panicking,” says Ken Doctor, writing about the announcement this week of deep cuts at the L.A. Times. He says a more descriptive term would be “frightsizing.” He didn’t coin the term, but he hangs it well on newspaper companies. Doctor, however, does give my employer, E.W. Scripps, a…