When young Britons do read newspapers, they tend to like the ones without much news.
"The evidence is also mounting that mobile devices are adding to, rather than replacing, how much news people consume, " said Mitchell.
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"We don't get much news of the outside anymore, " Loren said.
Not much news in that, though.
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This is one of the reasons why television and print news contains so much bad news and so little good news.
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Today, Wyeth (nyse: WYE - news - people ) disclosed as much bad news as it could and left investors to scratch their heads as to what it all means.
Never have I seen so much bad news about a company I really like.
Afterward, pretty much every news outlet as well as the marketing blogosphere was telling us.
So we think the equity markets are over-pricing this downturn and betting on too much bad news.
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This defensive posturing does create a question for investors: How much bad news is already factored into the markets?
The Cyprus real-estate industry, which represents roughly 12% of the country's gross domestic product, hasn't had much good news lately.
But it is much worse news for some individual farmers, since so many were only just scratching a living anyway.
But what I like most of all is that so much bad news is out there, meaning expectations are low.
And talk about brand power: NYSE and Nasdaq are photographed and featured in pretty much every news story about the market.
In Mombasa, we'd visit juice houses as much as possible for the fresh juices and some much needed news, compliments of Al Jazeera.
There is much good news about introducing vanilla as a crop.
The recent Colombian elections for governors, mayors, plus state and city legislators were remarkable, with much good news about the state of democracy in the long troubled country.
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Instead, Wyeth seems to be putting as much bad news as it can on the table: Sales of vaccines, animal health treatments and consumer healthcare products are also slowing.
There wasn't much good news for Logitech investors when the company revealed its results for the financial fourth quarter, as it fell far below targets for sales and revenue.
While African Islamism has been much in the news of late with the genocidal events in Darfur, much less attention has been paid to the dramatic spread of radical Islamism in sub-Saharan Africa which is home to 250 million Muslims.
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So far, it has really been the big news events that have brought people together to share and compile news online - on these occasions, it's perhaps the ability to form a community as much as the news content that brings people together.
But I think 10 years from now, we might use the Web much more for news -- we even do it to some extent today, but I think it'll be much bigger in 10 years.
This December there has been a phrase that has been much in the news: First responders.
The much-anticipated news is in: ESPN reports that Peyton Manning will join the Denver Broncos.
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Much in the news for its heroic efforts at quality control: Mattel (24, MAT) .
The American natural gas boom has been much in the news over the past year.
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American relations with the world's largest democracy, India, were much in the news last week.
It might not take much more bad news for a majority to vote that way next week.
The question of whether Europe will ever catch up is still much in the news in America.
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