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    Does News Have a Future?

    As of last year, more people were getting their news for free on the Internet than were paying for newspapers and magazines.  We hear proposals for preserving journalism as we've come to know it and for creating new ways of serving consumers of information. Also, President Obama warns mayors against misusing stimulus-package funds, and Hollywood and the Oscars.

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    By Warren Olney • Feb 20, 2009 • 1h 0m Listen

    As of last year, more people were getting their news for free on the Internet than were paying for newspapers and magazines. We hear proposals for preserving journalism as we've come to know it and for creating new ways of serving consumers of information. Also, President Obama warns mayors against misusing stimulus-package funds, and it's time again for the Oscars on Sunday evening. We talk to the President of the National Society of Film Critics.


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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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