Daily Briefs: News Industry Analysis and Flip-Flop Flasks

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By CHRIS PACKHAM

This week’s layoffs at The Kansas City Star have left the paper lighter, leaner and more streamlined — like a shark!

Now it’s pointed directly at the future, as though the future were driving its motorcade past the book depository and The Star were poised like a streamlined shark with a rifle — look out, future! After the jump, some more offensive similes, coming up fast on your bumper like the paparazzi in the Pont de l’Alma road tunnel in Paris. Goodbye, English rose. Click here, or on this photo of Sir Elton John’s performance at Princess Diana’s funeral in 1997: