The Chicago Reader cut more costs last week by firing four of its most experienced journalists. "Thousands of bloggers could type for a millennium and not come up with the kind of deeply reported story that freed innocent men," writes New York Times media columnist David Carr of the work of those fired. A millennium is a long time but that is probably totally true! But what's more: Does firing real journalists actually cut costs? A look at any newspaper's most popular stories suggests the most obvious thing of all: That reporting actually makes money for newspapers.

"In Rainbows," heretofore to be known as Radiohead's seventh and gayest album, will be available for download on October 10th—for whatever price you wish to pay. The gloomy-twee art-rockers are no longer beholden to a corporate master. Display Basket [Radiohead]