McClatchy should get some love since they're the only major print outlet

[EFerrari]

that produces real news anymore. We should be sending them flowers, imo.

Go post a comment to their site if you can. The registration is very quick.

CIA advised military on questioning at Guantanamo

By Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — The CIA, which had authority to use harsh interrogation techniques on suspected terrorist detainees, advised U.S. military officials at Guantanamo in 2002 on how far they could go in extracting information from captives there, documents released at a Senate hearing Tuesday show.

"If the detainee dies you're doing it wrong," Jonathan Fredman, chief counsel to the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, told a meeting of officials on Oct. 2, 2002, according to minutes from the meeting.

That meeting came a week after a delegation of senior Bush administration officials visited the Guantanamo Naval base, where the Bush administration has set up a prison camp for suspected terrorists. In addition to Fredman, attendees at the meeting included Lt. Col. Jerald Phifer, who was in charge of Guantanamo's Joint Task Force 170, and Lt. Col. Diane Beaver, who was Task Force 170's legal officer.

The officials who had visited Guantanamo the week before were David Addington, counsel to Vice President Dick Cheney; William Haynes, the Pentagon’s top lawyer; acting CIA counsel John Rizzo; and Michael Chertoff, head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, and now President Bush's Homeland Security secretary.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/41329.html

[Wickerman]

1. I thought I heard just yesterday that McClatchy is laying off 10%

of it's staff?

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003817340
Behind McClatchy Layoffs -- A Mountain Of Debt

By Mark Fitzgerald

Published: June 17, 2008 12:30 PM ET

CHICAGO The 1,400 McClatchy Co. employees targeted for layoffs can blame their job loss on the faltering newspaper economy in general, their company's specific concentration of papers in California and Florida where the housing collapse has been most acute -- and a forward-looking strategy once hailed as a way to avoid precisely this kind of pain.

When McClatchy borrowed heavily to buy Knight Ridder Inc. in 2006, it was following a strategy that Wall Street and other industry observers said made perfect sense for newspaper chains: grow top-line revenue through acquisitions funded by cheap credit. McClatchy added its own spin -- again to favorable reviews -- by quickly reducing much of the debt with the sales of a dozen dailies that didn't fit its company profile of serving "fast-growing" markets.

But, as the June E&P cover story -- titled "Til Debt Do Us Part" -- makes clear, everything went wrong for McClatchy after the applause faded.

The housing crunch depressed revenues, especially at such newly acquired properties as The Miami Herald and The Sacramento Bee. More than one-third of its total advertising revenue comes from papers in Florida and California.
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Sad, when they were indeed (at times) doing good reporting.

[EFerrari]

2. It's not surprising. I don't know how they stay in business at all.

That McClatchy bought the Miami Herald ("We'll print ANYTHING!") is good news though.

The print media is struggling to find a new model that works. And, they're not there yet. :(