Finally, Mr Hunt makes the less contentious point that the closure of the News of the World changes plurality in the media universe: that's a definitional point, in that there is, as of today, one less news voice.
Would it mean that I had less bad news to give about lung cancer?
The less good news is that her remarks have caused rifts at various levels.
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The proliferation of channels means that Americans watch less TV news than they did in the pre-cable era.
In less stellar news, NASA was forced to extend its partnership with the Russian space agency Roscosmos until 2017.
The less good news is that most of the manufacturing happens in China, so most of the jobs are there.
In these circumstances a stronger yen and weaker bond market may be less bad news than a response to good news.
The less good news is the sheer number of screws you're going to have to contend with (over 90 by iFixit's count).
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The less good news is that, as the meeting ended, mystery remained over how the money is to be spent, and by whom.
Less good news is that 43% overestimate the period (which varies from country to country) during which shops will continue to accept old money.
Some viewers and politicians are unhappy that viewers in the south of Scotland receive less Scottish news than viewers in the rest of the country who receive STV.
And some additional, much less happy news from Australia, as Unesco and environmentalists warn that climate change and large-scale coal mining may lead to the wholesale destruction of the Great Barrier Reef.
In a survey of 1, 100 participants, 63% said they rely more on traditional news organizations and less on aggregators when reading news on the tablet.
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The Coursera expansion news comes less than two weeks after two other significant pieces of MOOC news.
By this time next year, WikiLeaks itself and the personal fortunes of its editor-in-chief may be less relevant as news and more significant as historical antecedent.
Housing starts in Canada did come in about 4K less than expected at 189K. While on the surface this may seem like less than positive news, the fact that the previous report was revised upward by 6K easily offset any ill effects of the expectations miss.
The news is less rosy for ISPs ranging from giant EarthLink (nasdaq: ELNK - news - people ) to smaller Brand X.
And devoting a section of the Channel 4 News programme to regional news would result in less "distinctive" national and international news, he added.
So magazine news cycles will either have to close earlier during the week, which makes them less able to react to news, in order to deliver their offering by Friday or find alternative means of delivery.
But for the legions of still-unemployed and underemployed workers, the news is less promising.
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But Comcast executives also emphasize that NBC News is less than 1% of Comcast's operating cash flow.
The news comes less than 48 hours after an actual investigation in food safety has impacted Yum!
Outside the English-speaking world newspapers often face less competition from online news aggregators and other Silicon Valley wheezes.
The news comes less than a month after Alcatel announced plans to cut 900 jobs in North America, blaming poor trading conditions.
With Twitter, even swifter, and no less shocking when the news came today that one of its best known writers, Iain Banks has terminal cancer.
But a different piece of space-related news inspired less laughter.
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Campaign advertisements actually improve public decisionmaking: they help educate voters who are less engaged with the news about the candidates in the race and the issues at stake.
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The other side of that argument, it has to be said, is that under a commercial system, there would be less room for serious news: the model of the American networks is scarcely one to aspire to.
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