• Newspaper Exec Murdered For Pocket Money

    In your ugly Thursday media column: a Chinese newspaper executive is brutally murdered, Sears pimps 'Good News,' John Norris picks up a new gig, and somebody's interested in the Boston Globe:

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    David Kao, a 49 year-old "marketing executive at World Journal, the largest Chinese-language daily newspaper in the United States," was beaten, strangled to death, and robbed by two teenagers in Queens last week. Police say the teens had specifically targeted Asians for robberies before. They stole $115 from his wallet and used his car for two days of joyriding before being caught. Terrible.

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