It was a bad week for newspapers, radio, and TV

Suburban News Files Bankruptcy – Business First
Baltimore Sun cuts third of newsroom – Baltimore Sun
Slouching Towards Oblivion – Maureen Dowd, NY Times
Tribune slashes 18 senior editors and newsroom managers – Poynter
Newspaper Death Foretold by Warren Buffett!!! – Slate Magazine
Who Will Survive? – According To Vanity Fair
Even Radio Takes A Hit – Yahoo Finance

What’s Next For News
Useful predictions about American journalism to 2020. [ Xark.com ]

Ratings Don’t Tell the Whole Story in Broadcast Anymore
With less than a month left to go before this season ends, four of the five major networks find themselves attracting fewer viewers than this time last year. It’s a particularly disappointing state of affairs because many observers thought it would be easy for the networks to improve over last season, when repeats and reality shows replaced original episodes of shows whose seasons were shortened by the writers’ work stoppage. [ TVWeek.com ]

Video continues to change the game

Hulu.com, the Web site that offers TV shows and movies, was the third most-watched Internet video destination last month, overtaking Yahoo! Inc.
Hulu, whose owners include News Corp. and General Electric Co.’s NBC Universal, showed 380 million videos in March, compared with Yahoo’s fourth-place 335 million. [ Bloomberg News ]

ABC to Add Its Shows to Videos on Hulu
Three of the four big broadcast networks now own stakes in Hulu, the popular video Web site. Under a deal unveiled Thursday with the Walt Disney Company, Hulu says it will add ABC shows like “Desperate Housewives” to its Web site by late summer, pending regulatory approval. ABC Enterprises, a unit of the Walt Disney Company, announced Thursday that it would join NBC Universal, which is owned by General Electric and Vivendi, and the News Corporation, owner of Fox, as a partner in the joint venture. [ New York Times ]

Old Master’s Mexican Suitcase Photos Reveal New Insights
When the three weathered cardboard boxes — known collectively, and cinematically, as the Mexican suitcase — arrived at the International Center of Photography more than a year ago, one of the first things a conservator did was bend down and sniff the film coiled inside, fearful of a telltale acrid odor, a sign of nitrate decay. [ New York Times ]

"I don’t believe there would have been a Copyright Act if there hadn’t been a Barbara Ringer"
Barbara A. Ringer had just graduated from Columbia University law school in 1949 when she joined the Copyright Office at the Library of Congress. Within a few years, she set about revising an archaic set of laws that had been in place since 1909 — before the invention of television or commercial radio, before copying machines and the modern recording industry, let alone cable TV, home computers and the Internet. [ Washington Post ]

Photo News

Rediscovering Marilyn Monroe

There are photos of Arnold amd Maria here

Here is NOT Air Force One Statue of Liberty New york Photo

White House Now On Flickr

Esquire Mag Cover From Video Shoot

Twitter News & Tweets

What is #followfriday?

Numbers Can’t Begin To Describe Twitter’s Impact

MTV Gets Social Networking

Sarah Palin begins to Twitter

Creatively Minded Branding On Twitter

Facebook News

Facebook executive considers California Attorney General campaign

Over 35 and on Faceboook

What better way to capture the charm and innocence of a child than to plunk him down amid the coarse trappings of a life lived in pursuit of wealth [ Link ]