California: Newspaper Shifts From Print To Web.

The Berkeley Daily Planet newspaper announced Thursday that it would shift to an online-only edition at the end of the month. In a letter posted on the paper's Web site, the editor, Becky O'Malley, and publisher, Mike O'Malley, cited falling advertising sales, absentee business owners, and a continuing boycott by a group that accuses the paper of being overly critical of Israel. ''The campaign against the Planet's free-speech policy by a few misguided zealots who represent themselves as friends of Israel has certainly contributed to our advertising problems in some measure,'' the O'Malleys wrote. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]