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Richard Johnson is the first to admit it was a bad idea. Recently laid off from a job building trailers in Elkhart, Ind., Mr.

Johnson came up a dollar short last month when he went to buy a $4.99 bottle of sleep medication. So, he tried to shoplift it and was immediately arrested.

As the economy has weakened, shoplifting has increased 10% to 20%.

A French daredevil who climbed the outside of The New York Times' skyscraper has been sentenced to community service.

So far, there haven't been many signs that Google is having much trouble adapting to the economy. While companies all across the web are cutting jobs left and right, Google is brushing off deals with other major search engines that the other parties would kill to get done.

CEO Eric Schmidt said in a NY Times interview the other day that Google was doing thing like:

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The New York Times plans to reduce the number of standalone sections of the New York metropolitan editions of the newspaper, a move designed to save money by cutting labor costs.

At Fox News, media relations is keeping reporters in line by feeding and sometimes maiming them. Shooting the occasional messenger is baked right into the process.

By blacklisting reporters it does not like, planting stories with friendlies at every turn, Fox News has been living a life beyond consequence for years.

Former CNN sr. producer/writer skewers so called "victims" of today's financial crisis--at least people who should've known better & greedily overspent.

This piece (& 2 others) attack "victims" featured in recent NY Times. Author isn't letting off banks;she wants individuals held to account too.

Pointed, unsympathetic (& amusing). A different voice

A New York Times story examining John McCain's relationship with a female lobbyist eight years ago has thrust the newspaper itself into the spotlight, with McCain slamming the story as a "hit-and-run smear campaign" and conservative pundits rallying to the senator's defense.

The Times stood its ground.