Hot off the Press: River is relegated edition

CRG sportswriter Mike Hlas writes a thoughtful blog post about the world of newspaper journalism in the wake of Gannett's most recent employee purge to keep the pockets of its fat cats stuffed: http://thegazette.com/2011/06/22/once-upon-a-time-the-des-moines-register-was-great/.

More about the DMR layoffs from WHO: http://www.whotv.com/news/who-story-register-layoffs-062111,0,4227705.story.

LAT sports columnist Bill Plaschke (you know: that dude on "Around the Horn") writes about buying Dodgers tickets for $2.55 a piece and enjoying a day game in "Frank McCourt's Ghost Town" (aka, Dodger Stadium): http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-0622-plaschke-20110622,0,1723241.column. Poor Dodgers.

The pope may soon be pimping large in a hybrid popemobile: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2011/06/hybrid-popemobile-vatican-says-maybe.html.

Norwegians were captivated by the "longest TV program in the world," which was basically the voyage of a ship through Norwegian fjords: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,769826,00.html.

North Carolina may compensate those who were involuntarily sterilized by the state's eugenics laws: http://www.npr.org/2011/06/22/137347548/n-c-considers-paying-forced-sterilization-victims. The most shocking fact about this for me: there were eugenics laws in the US.

The giant of Argentine soccer, River Plate, has been relegated to the second division for the first time in the club's 110-year history: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-13922463. HOO-LI-GANS.