The Agenda

A week before the Providence Journal editorial admitted surprise that “people still read newspapers,” (see page 4 of Agenda #21 or www.agendanation.net/021/littlebluff) the New York Times reported that low circulation figures “may not be as dire as they sound.”

“What’s Online” [11/4/06] quotes Allen Mutter from his blog Confessions of a Newsosaur (newsosaur.blogspot.com), “a significant portion of the drop results directly from the industry’s…initiative to eliminate inefficient vanity and promotional circulation.” As those numbers were being reported, “What’s Online” says the Newspaper Association of America (naa.org) released the results of a study that shows when Internet readership is counted – Great Scot! – “the newspaper audience is actually way up.”

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Underappreciated Days That Changed America
In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's anti-interventionist shift in Central and South America aimed to ease authoritarian relations. Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy Roosevelt set a new course for Latin American relations, but today's Socialist governments raise the question of how "good" a neighbor we really are. (www.as220.org)

I grew up in Puerto Rico. The Island's location is a key to international waters that the United States would never allow on any other nation's chain. In my opinion, the paradox the island suffers is a direct result of US involvement in Latin America that lacked forethought.