> - Distance of SF-LA being just beyond the edge of air/rail travel decision break point
Are you sure of this? Paris-Marseille is 862km / 535 miles stretch that can be traveled in as little as 3h07 on the french TGV train. In comparison, SF-LA is only 614 km / 382 miles...
In france, there is a successful new (well, created in 2008) completely independent news source called mediapart. It only has a website and does *not* have a printed version and runs absolutely no ads.
How do they do it? Well, they somehow managed to get 112,000 paying subscribers on board so far who pay 9 Euros per month.
It really shows that they are independent in the sense that they have unearthed several scoops in the last few years that have shaken the French establishment.
Amongst others for example, they have nailed France's Minister for the Budget, Jerome Cahuzac, in a fiscal fraud case. You got to laugh at the irony...
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> - Distance of SF-LA being just beyond the edge of air/rail travel decision break point
Are you sure of this? Paris-Marseille is 862km / 535 miles stretch that can be traveled in as little as 3h07 on the french TGV train. In comparison, SF-LA is only 614 km / 382 miles...
In france, there is a successful new (well, created in 2008) completely independent news source called mediapart. It only has a website and does *not* have a printed version and runs absolutely no ads.
How do they do it? Well, they somehow managed to get 112,000 paying subscribers on board so far who pay 9 Euros per month.
It really shows that they are independent in the sense that they have unearthed several scoops in the last few years that have shaken the French establishment.
Amongst others for example, they have nailed France's Minister for the Budget, Jerome Cahuzac, in a fiscal fraud case. You got to laugh at the irony...