But the result is a surfeit of rather flat news stories and the book only really comes to life with the last two sections, perhaps because the follies of dotcom valuations and subprime loans seem so fresh in the memory.
His rather presciently subtitled 2008 book Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media is an excellent, compelling read.
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Stocks like Caterpillar and Alcoa were mostly flat on the news, as the Dow moved up above its closing level yesterday, gaining 0.6% to 11, 968.
As I waited for my lesson, I paged through a stack of old magazines while watching Fox News on a flat-screen television.
Stocks were unmoved by the good news, opening flat Thursday morning.
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But flat sandals are nothing but bad news, says Bob Thompson, executive director for the Institute for Preventive Foot Health, who doesn't own a single pair.
The company and its chief executive, Carol Bartz, are grappling with issues including flat revenue, executive departures and news that private-equity firms have been exploring deal possibilities that include merging Yahoo with AOL Inc.
In U.S. economic news, consumer prices were flat in June, in line with expectations, as energy costs continued to fall.
They were falling in the faces of the flat Magic players who look dejected after the news of their team splintering.
Darden Restaurants, which owns Olive Garden, Red Lobster and Longhorn Steakhouse, has responded to the trend with new restaurant franchises like Yard House, which prides itself on a large draft beer menu, American-fusion cuisine and a lively atmosphere punctuated with classic rock music and flat-screen TVs playing sporting events and news broadcasts.
Numbers one and two, Electronics Arts and Activision (nasdaq: ATVI - news - people ), saw flat sales.
This is bad news considering that refineries had been running flat out in recent months to keep up with high demand.
The bodies of the girl, aged five, and her brother, 10, were found on Saturday afternoon in a flat in Saint-Priest, a Lyon suburb, AFP news agency said.
Among the largest underlying components of QQQ, in trading today News Corp ( NASD: NWSA) is trading flat, Starbucks Corporation ( NASD: SBUX) is down about 1.2%, and Priceline.com Incorporated ( NASD: PCLN) is lower by about 0.2%.
This spring the company opened in New York, the first of five planned city-center stores in the U.S. It boasts a latte bar, scores of high-resolution flat-panel displays and a studio for a budding financial news and information operation.
This spring the company opened onMadison Avenue in New York, the first of five planned city-center stores in the U.S. It boasts a latte bar, scores of high-resolution flat-panel displays and a studio for a budding financial news and information operation that serves radio and the Web.
Despite those points of good news, the U.S. market stayed relatively flat.
England sevens captain and IRB world sevens player of the year Ollie Phillips described it as "fabulous news" adding he was "doing cartwheels round my flat".
Since the company has already said that growth for the year will be flat, that giant question mark can only be seen as bad news for investors.
Newt Gingrich jumped on the news yesterday and called it "Mitt Romney's flat tax, " in mock homage to the former speaker's proposal for a 15% voluntary flat tax.
The problems with PGM production in South Africa come on the heels of news from Norilsk, which said PGM output should be flat year-over-year for 2012, at 2.780 million ounces of palladium and 690, 000 ounces of platinum.
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For instance, Motorola 's (nyse: MOT - news - people ) carbon nanotube TVs are ready to leave the lab and hit the market, outperforming today's flat panel displays and IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) is leading the way to nanoscale computing.
Among the largest underlying components of QQQ, in trading today Directv Class A ( NASD: DTV) is up about 0.7%, News Corporation Class A ( NASD: NWSA) is trading flat, and Starbucks Corporation ( NASD: SBUX) is up by about 1.1%.
By contrast, shares in Bayer (nyse: BAY - news - people ), which makes Aleve, and Wyeth (nyse: WYE - news - people ), which makes Advil, were basically flat.
The uptick is especially notable when compared to the world's biggest hamburger maker, McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people ), whose same-store sales are flat, according to Morgan Stanley analyst Michael Sherrick.
"If you ask for the prime minister's diary, when Rupert Murdoch visits Number 10, if he goes downstairs it's published but if he has a meeting in the flat, it's considered a private meeting, " he told BBC News.
On that news, Cubist shares jumped 23%, but before that they were flat compared to two years ago.
At a news conference on Monday, her boyfriend Kevin Reape, who shared a flat with Miss O'Callaghan, appealed for information to help find her.
Markets in New York opened flat Tuesday after a holiday weekend, shaken by bank earnings and a dose of bad news for Apple followers.
Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) also forecast lower than expected revenue for its first quarter, predicting flat to 2% growth sequentially.
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