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It looks like MediaNews Group’s top secret Project X has been revealed. I’ll admit I’m seriously underwhelmed by the “individuated news” or I-News concept, and apparently so are Denver Post readers; one finds only chirping crickets in the online story’s barren comment section.

Essentially, the master plan is to make readers print their own newspapers with a special patented MediaNews Group device. This would allow the media giant to reduce publishing to Thursday, Saturday and Sunday — the big-revenue-generating advertising and coupon days.

The “individuated” stories selected by each reader are sent to a special printer being developed for MediaNews that each customer would have at home.

In more sad news coinciding with the Rocky’s demise, the American Society of Newspaper Editors announced Friday that it is pulling its annual April confab off the calendar because “the challenges editors face at their newspapers demand their full attention.”

In a bit of stinging news to those who blame the Internet for the demise of newspapers, ASNE president Charlotte Hall said it will “increase reliance on the Web to help editors share what they are learning as they reinvent their news organizations for multiple platforms.”

Only once before has the 87-year-old trade group canceled its annual meeting — in the final months of World War II.

This year’s circumstances are quite different than in 1945, Hall said. “This is a uniquely stressful period in our business as we face both structural change and deep recession.”

h/t Breitbart.com

President Barack Obama will be in the Denver metro area Tuesday as part of a nationwide tour “to convince Americans his economic stimulus plan will get the job done,” The Denver Post reports.

The president is planning stops in Denver and Phoenix on Tuesday and Wednesday. That comes on top of a whirlwind of travel this week: Obama was scheduled to be in Peoria, Ill., Thursday afternoon after visiting Indiana, Florida and Virginia earlier.

A source told The Denver Post that Obama would be in the Denver-metro area Tuesday and that the White House is looking for a work site at which Obama can tout green energy components of the $798 billion federal stimulus bill.

Bloated federal funding and political pressure pushed a U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement program to meet arrest quotas rather than focus on rounding up criminal fugitives and addressing national security threats, says a damning new report on the controversial agency.

The Immigration Justice Clinic of Yeshiva University’s law school and the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) based their conclusions of ICE’s National Fugitive Operations Program on internal agency memos:

The report, Collateral Damage: An Examination of ICE’s Fugitive Operations Program, found that 73 percent of the nearly 97,000 people arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) fugitive operations teams between the program’s inception in 2003 and early 2008 were unauthorized immigrants without criminal records.