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Newspapers in Big Trouble, Should Americans Care?

The Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times are facing serious financial trouble, and local newspapers are cutting back all over the country. Also, the Fed's new rules to crack down on shady lending practices, and 500 tons of uranium have been shipped from Iraq to Canada.

By Warren Olney • Jul 8, 2008 • 1h 0m Listen

The Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times are on facing serious financial trouble, and local newspapers are cutting back all over the country. Will the Internet replace the papers as America's major source of news? Can it perform those functions Thomas Jefferson thought central to the functioning of American democracy? Also, the Federal Reserve plans new rules to crack down on shady lending practices, and the last vestiges of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program are now in Canada.

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Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Katie Cooper
Producer, 'One year Later'
Frances Anderton
architecture critic and author

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To the Point

Newspapers in Big Trouble, Should Americans Care?

The Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times are facing serious financial trouble, and local newspapers are cutting back all over the country. Also, the Fed's new rules to crack down on shady lending practices, and 500 tons of uranium have been shipped from Iraq to Canada.

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To the Point

Newspapers in Big Trouble, Should Americans Care?

The Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times are facing serious financial trouble, and local newspapers are cutting back all over the country. Also, the Fed's new rules to crack down on shady lending practices, and 500 tons of uranium have been shipped from Iraq to Canada.

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