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To: jbemis
Our other local paper, the Daily News, is, in its own way, possibly even more pathetic. It was not a bad paper in the '80s, but at some point during the Age of Bubba, it collapsed faster than a Taliban soldier who's decided he's not quite ready to go to Allah.

It's still ostensibly more conservative than the LAT, but it has degenerated into nothing more than articles regurgitated from the AP and the NYT. Oh, and they put movie reviews on as their front page stories. A couple of months back they did a story which covered the entire front and back pages of their news section on...a Marilyn Monroe impersonator.

Funny how all these newspapers around the country seemed to go south at about the same time, and in roughly the same way. It would make an interesting dissertation for someone to investigate in detail exactly how and why this happened.

54 posted on 11/16/2001 1:12:29 PM PST by white rose
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To: white rose
You're right. Once a big conglomerate from Denver took over the Daily News, it went straight downhill - and quickly.
69 posted on 11/16/2001 1:17:53 PM PST by jbemis
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