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Any day now the powers at newspapers The New York Times and Washington Post will have to decide whether they will print the full 35,000, word text of the document sent to them in late June by the terrorist, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is calling the Unabomber. In the letter that accompanied the text, he gave each paper three months to publish his screed, upon which he promises to desist from terrorism, but he warned that if they refused he would start building his next bomb. Naturally the decision has been somewhat complicated for the two papers, since they don't want to seem to give in to terrorist demands and don't particularly like giving such publicity to the Unabomber's decidedly anti-establishmentarian opinions.

This article focuses on the article "Modern Morality," published in June 18, 1997 issue of the journal "The New York Times." June 18 was the day that the world's most important publication, took an advertisement in The New York Times, the paper that prints only the news that will fit its not-dissimilar mindset. The advertisement reprinted a the world's most important publication editorial titled "Modem Morality;' a subject should have thought alien to the core passions of either paper. But then for Americans morality has nothing at all to do with ethics or right action or who is stealing what money-and liberties-from whom.

The article presents information on a Supreme Court case between "The Detroit News" and the "Detroit Free Press." The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on a proposed joint-operating agreement between The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press. At stake, along with billions of dollars in monopoly profits for the nation's two largest newspaper chains, is the fate of the dwindling daily newspaper competition in U.S. cities. The Court will be taking its first look at the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 and quite possibly its last. The act lets two papers in the same city merge their business sides into a joint-operating agreement, with news functions remaining theoretically separate, if one paper is "failing."

The author raises questions about why some the "New York Times" fired a stringer named Jay Blotcher because he'd been a member of the anti-AIDS advocacy group ACT UP nearly fourteen years ago. The "Times" is making its case not on Blotcher's membership in ACT UP, which really would be McCarthyism, but on his role as a "public spokesperson for an advocacy organization." But Blotcher and his supporters point out that many "Times" staffers have relationships that could "confuse" readers. Dr. Lawrence K. Altman has many such professional associations with various medical establishments, public and private. Bernard Weinraub covers Hollywood for the paper, while his wife is a head honcho at Sony Pictures. These cases do not involve the "appearance" of conflict-of-interest but its essence. [T]he belief of some that Blotcher was singled out not for being gay but for being in ACT UP and Queer Nation continues to divide the paper internally. Even if one accepts the paper's argument that its only crime is a kind of post-Blair hyper-fastidiousness about appearances at the expense of fairness to one of its stringers, the story cannot be allowed to die there.

This article presents information regarding the presents of Mike Miller of Mike Miller Toyota, a major advertiser in the "Los Angeles Times", and Bob Zacky of the Zacky Farms chicken dynasty. Zacky of the Zacky Farms chicken dynasty. Many interpreted their presence in the Times's box as a form of corporate apology for the paper's aggressive reporting, which had allegedly upset both men recently. But even today, the Times remains a house of many mansions. Steve Wasserman runs a remarkably literate weekly book review section, for example, whose uncompromising ethos would seem to contradict everything that is said about the paper. It is a paper, in other words, with a lot of decline left in it, even though the Willes/Downing forces appear almost certain to prevail in the end.

Mark Willes, the former cereal executive and new chief of the Times Mirror Company, rode into town with a death warrant for New York's unique paper, New York Newsday, we almost yearned for the days of another Californian, Citizen Kane. Wiles killed his paper because even though it was headed past the break-even point it would never earn "an appropriate rate of return."

The article focuses on the popularity of the "New York Times," newspaper in the United States. Few regular readers have the chutzpah to snub the paper entirely for a day, never doubting they will be punished in some mysterious way, yet few can get through it without psychic confusions about what to skip, whether to read at the expense of earning a living, vacuuming the rug, writing a letter to the phone company, etc. The author says that "The Times," is not the most incredible 30-percent buy in New York, but it is at a perilous subjective cost. There is a crisis at the New York Times. If a reader feels that only by brilliant eye-editing he can reach the last page without putting a sixty foot trench in the middle of the day, something is gravely out of whack.

This article focuses on a march of the black people in the United States, which held on October 16, 1995. Eighty black religious leaders have declared October 16 a holy day. The Association of Black Psychologists has issued an endorsement of the march as a way to focus on black men's personal responsibility to arrest self-imposed destructive attitudes, feelings and behavior. New York's oldest black-owned paper, "The Amsterdam News," dismisses critics of the march as those who will grind their molars into dust. The author says that there is a real and dangerous racial crisis facing this nation, and black men are bearing much of the brunt of this country's worst fears and cruelest neglect.

The article discusses the ways in which the U.S. financial crisis has affected the U.S. newspaper industry, which include budget cuts and demands on labor unions. The author discusses how the New York Times Company has threatened to shut down the "Boston Globe" newspaper if it cannot produce millions of dollars in savings. The article states that U.S. Senator John Kerry is supporting a bill that would make papers such as the "Boston Globe" nonprofit enterprises.

The article discusses July 11, 2008 when the stock price of seven major U.S. newspapers dropped to an all-time low and the reaction from bloggers. According to blogger Alan D. Mutter, this was the worst day for U.S. newspapers in U.S. history. Blogger Kevin Roderick, writer of the blogsite "LA Observed," stated that after staff cuts, newspapers will still produce a paper that subscribers are abandoning. Lee Abrams stated that most U.S. newspapers sound like National Public Radio Inc. (NPR).

This article takes a look at the struggles faced by mass media. Everywhere, mass media seems to be in crisis. NBC slashed its news-gathering operations and plans to shutter its MSNBC headquarters. New York Times Company profits were 39% lower than a year before. The "Boston Globe" and other smaller papers are suffering, and "Business Week" is shedding editorial staffers. Internet is the reason. Young people don't buy newspapers or watch the news, they turn to the Internet, Blogs that are sometimes more reliable, and Google.