Russia tells U.S. to get out of the way in Syria

True, but you need to look at America's reasoning for putting them on the list and the conditions for them "getting off the list." They're still firmly on the list. Also, their flavor of Islam doesn't mesh with the flavor being consumed by our oil-pumping friends. So by that reckoning alone, they'll never be off the list.

SPC Kevin Ford Someone gets it- they finally get it. Had 10 sentences that really did not support the by-line. Little info- but lots of ads.

Their suffering is due to their own deceitful practices. It's self-inflicted. Report the facts and report it without biased opinion. It's a simple fix, but they are so blinded by ideology, thy can't help themselves. They are fashioning their own noose, because they refuse to observe the obvious.

Maj Marty Hogan - I used to work at a media company as it made their transition on online. Here is the reality of the pre-online world, print media got its revenue from three sources: subscriptions, advertising and editorials. When things went online people got it in their heads content should be free so there went subscription revenues out the window and editorial revenues went to Craig's List and Ebay. That left online media (the modern print media) with one source of traditional revenue, advertising revenue.

The other thing that happen at the same time was Google. I read an interesting book about this called Googled where the founders were explaining to investors in the ad industry how they were going to be able to track exactly who looked at an ad (impressions), how long they stayed on the site (stickiness) and if they clicked on an ad (CPM). The ad executives listening stated something like, "You're messing with the magic" because now the advertisers had to prove they were effective in creating the right behavior. Real measures of ROI. The final thing the move to online did was allow the sites to collect a lot of information about who was browsing their sites and then sell it (list revenue).

So what has this resulted in? Media sites that can only make money by arranging their content in way that gain impressions (clicks and display ads), stickiness (stay on the page), and click on ads (CPM). Also they gain revenue by selling your information. Don't blame them for this, they are businesses and this is how they gain revenue. It had nothing to do with deceitful practices or anything else. We lost our ability to get high quality news when we collectively decided we didn't want to pay for it (subscriptions) instead forcing them into maximizing ad revenues and selling information about us.