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| | Democracy Now! | Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Laurie Garrett Quits Newsday: "When You See News As a Product...It's ... |
 | | And today, the last data I was privy to, which may be out of date, Newsday was down to about 400,000 readers -- that's a loss of, you know, somewhere between 700,000 and 800,000 readers -- and has a very low profile in New York City and is a shadow of its former self. |
 | | But it was not a problem that was unfixable, and ultimately, New York Newsday was right on the cusp of being a major profit center for the Times Mirror Corporation and of having an enormous, enormous impact on New York City. |
 | | I mean, you know, I said to Newsday, I have to go deal with AIDS in Africa, and they said, bye-bye, and I was on a plane and off to Africa. |
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