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QOTD: Facing and spacing

Lorcan Dempsey

Facebook is everywhere. I liked this paragraph from the Guardian business pages:

The success of Facebook has not gone unnoticed at News Corp. Asked earlier this month by the Wall Street Journal – which he is looking to buy – why he had not made an offer for another North American newspaper group, Tribune, Mr Murdoch said it was because readership of its newspapers was declining. “That’s because everyone’s going to MySpace,” quipped the reporter. “I wish they were. They’re all going to Facebook,” the media mogul retorted. [Facebook challenges MySpace as place for the cool set to hang out | | Guardian Unlimited Business]

Via Roddy MacLeod.

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