Whoever wished to live in interesting times, they got their wish fulfilled.
One down: Hearst fantasizes about charging newspaper readers more as a response to the downfall of the industry. My take: the only way to spare this kind of thinking from some pretty blunt qualifiers is to assume Hearst also plans to turn (not-so-long-term) into a specialist player and an altogether smaller business.
Another down, this side of the pond this time: Britain's Olympic Delivery Authority randomly selects designers for 2012-related work. That's no rumors, but its own admission, it seems. And I thought the ugly (yes, I still think it's ugly, despite its daring) brand identity could turn into something great if great creative minds played with it, as intended by the strategy that supported it. I was wrong.
Last one up, back in the US: JetBlue's funny take on the crisis and the recent surge of public anger directed at those top execs who screwed some of America's corporations beyond imagination. A Dilbertesque kind of humor I couldn't help notice, skillfully inserted in the HuffPost.