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Another obituary...
1 posted on 05/12/2009 6:44:38 AM PDT by abb
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2 posted on 05/12/2009 6:45:15 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: abb

What’s a newspaper?


4 posted on 05/12/2009 6:54:38 AM PDT by proudpapa (Obama - Worst One Ever!)
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To: abb

I was in college in New York in that period. Before the strike I used to read ALL of the Sunday papers, the Times, the Herald Tribune, the World Telegram and Sun, the Journal American, the News, the Mirror, the (Saturday) Post, sometimes the old Newark News. Being a news junkie I read them all the way through. A golden age in newspapering.


6 posted on 05/12/2009 6:59:34 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: abb
"The least reliable source for what the end of newspapers means is usually the newspaper men..."

BWWWHAAAA!!!
Yea.

"...who are too stuck in their roles to reimagine the world."

Well a toilet plunger of celestial proportions seems to have unstuck em this time, but good.
The plunging superforce is moving 'em all along down the drain of life. :^)

7 posted on 05/12/2009 7:01:03 AM PDT by Landru (Arghh, Liberals are trapped in my colon like spackle or paste.)
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Life after liberal rags will be very nice indeed!


10 posted on 05/12/2009 7:20:49 AM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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“No conversation about newspapers’ dismal present is complete without some anguished mention of how democracy will go off the rails unless the press is there to set it straight.”

Does anyone still think newspapers are democracy’s watchdog? Ha! What an absolute crock. They are the cheerleaders of derailed democracy.


14 posted on 05/12/2009 7:45:11 AM PDT by Tublecane
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To: abb
New York newspaper strike of 1962-63
But al gorer had not yet invented the internet so it's a bad perspective to look at 63 and say what effect no print paper would be today.
16 posted on 05/12/2009 7:49:22 AM PDT by dblshot
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...Birds hardest hit.


18 posted on 05/12/2009 7:53:55 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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