Dead trees, dead newspapers
Watching the collapse of the newspaper industry, I wonder which major American city will be the first to go without a real daily newspaper. My bet is Detroit or Philadelphia. On the other hand, in the 1980s I lived in Atlanta, and it was hard to call the Atlanta Constitution a real newspaper even then, ...
Watching the collapse of the newspaper industry, I wonder which major American city will be the first to go without a real daily newspaper. My bet is Detroit or Philadelphia. On the other hand, in the 1980s I lived in Atlanta, and it was hard to call the Atlanta Constitution a real newspaper even then, if the measure of quality is how well you can understand a city by relying on the coverage offered by its main newspaper. I would call the Constitution I read back then a "zombie newspaper," stumbling around like it was alive, but not really so.
Watching the collapse of the newspaper industry, I wonder which major American city will be the first to go without a real daily newspaper. My bet is Detroit or Philadelphia. On the other hand, in the 1980s I lived in Atlanta, and it was hard to call the Atlanta Constitution a real newspaper even then, if the measure of quality is how well you can understand a city by relying on the coverage offered by its main newspaper. I would call the Constitution I read back then a "zombie newspaper," stumbling around like it was alive, but not really so.
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