In some states you can now get unemployment for nearly two years. Enough to keep your family in hand-me-downs and No Frills rice until all those uh, print media jobs come back.

The Democrats feel an urgency to act now because the monthly labor report that comes out Friday is expected to show that the nation's unemployment rate in October continued to be at or above 10 percent. Also, more than 600,000 workers had run out of benefits at the end of October

The revolution will not be televised until March, at the earliest.
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We'll try not to use too much insider publishing industry "lingo" as we break this down for you: Dan Brown is with Random House, and he sells more books than Jesus, and he was taking forever with his new book so Random House was totally sweating, particularly with this recession and all, but finally his book dropped this week and sold a million freaking copies in the first day, so now Random House has cake and champagne. Although look at this celebration pic at Galleycat, what did they do, just press an audiobook directly into the top of the cake? Bootleg.

Every book publisher should get Dan Brown!
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A tipster tells us that NBC is poaching Thrillist's New York editor Steve Bryant, for a new site in Chicago similar to the San Francisco site they poached our own Owen Thomas for. NBC, always poaching! Man. [Thrillist PR machine Flavie tells us: "Yes. Officially August 1st: Hayden Lynch our former Nation editor will replace Steve Bryant as Thrillist NY editor. Joe McGauley, Thrillist former Web Editor will replace Hayden Lynch in the role of Nation Editor…Which leaves us with a web editor position to fill." Job!]

Whoa, don't everybody buy a newspaper at once! Cox has sold the Waco Tribune-Herald to a media company, and employees at the Gary Post-Tribune in Indiana want to buy their own paper from the Sun-Times. Strike while the MJ news is hot, Gary.

As if it wasn't hard enough just being a newspaper—try being the only black newspaper in Boston, for chrissake. A group of investors led by Harvard's Charles Ogletree say they've put together enough money to save the the Bay State Banner, which was going to be forced to close after 44 years. The downside: the paper's employees and readers will be forced to continue to live in Boston, Mass.

Paste Magazine! It is not dead, yet. Its Quixotic campaign to solicit donations from you, the public, to save itself, has actually paid off, to the tune of more than a quarter million dollars. Wowza. Impressive. Paste will continue to print, as we launch our own "Save Us" campaign here, via Paypal, please, give what you can, immediately.

You can buy the cufflinks now for $100,000, but the bidding currently stands at $0. The seller is obviously a man of wealth and taste, and very possibly unemployed. Instead of reaping the windfall yourself, sir, consider donating them to be auctioned off at ASSME's upcoming Swag-A-Thon, a party of unemployed media types that will benefit even worse-off homeless AIDS patients.
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