Another week, another round of bad news for those who bring you the bad news. Some California newspapers tell their employees to take a week off — without pay. A 24-hour news channel run by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune is signing off due to a lack of investors. The Washington Post’s Book World stand-alone section is stand-alone no more. The CBS station in the nation’s top television market guts its on-air sports department. And speaking of sports, when was the last time the number of media passes handed out for a Super Bowl actually declined from the previous year?
