For the first two months here, I stayed north of Victoria Peak, on Hong Kong Island. That is, I was where all the people are. Shoulder to shoulder, it seems sometimes, in the mass of humanity that inhabits the coastal strip on the north shore. Not until Monday, Dec. 1, did I venture to the […]

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Or, we could subtitle this post, “the numbers at Gannett leak out, and they reinforce what Gannett veterans already knew.” That is, Gannett never has owned newspapers. By its own preferred corporate-speak, it has owned “profit centers” — and the greedy bastards who ran the company were bold enough to call it just that. A […]

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