This is fortunate since, without a little coaching, chances are you'd be hard-pressed to figure out how to turn it off.

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Even if News Corp does start charging and others follow suit, analysts say doing a U-turn on the free news model will be hard to pull off.

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He's beefed up the NFL's social media presence and now has 3.5 million Facebook friends and 2.1 million Twitter followers, helping turn off-season events that were once only for the hard core--like the draft combine and the draft itself--into huge spectacles.

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