If you care even a whit about newspapers and newspapering, read Timothy Egan's column in today's N.Y. Times. He is one of my favorite writers, and has eloquently stated the case for somehow saving newspapers, or failing that, at least acknowledging the significance of their demise.
I've said it on-air and in speeches dozens of times, and I repeat it here now. If Alabama's daily newspapers went out of business today, there would be no 10:00pm newscasts tonight. And ditto for the online "new media" community that likes so much to trample on "traditional media". They do so only because the old media exists. Just who is going to provide the material for them to use and critique when the last paper's press stops running?
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