It’s been a crazy month for me and mine as we try to plan a wedding across the continent. Now that summer is officially over it’s time to hunker down and relieve everyone’s curiosity. and catch up. So, to make for a post-free month here are two short posts sandwiched into one. The newspaper business is demonstrating that you can’t cut your way to growth. Newspapers and media companies spent most of the 1990’s cutting costs as a way to grow margins and revenues.