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McClatchy Another Harbinger of the Newspaper Industry’s Sad State

Posted on February 19, 2020April 4, 2020

The McClatchy newspaper chain bankruptcy is another harbinger of all things sad for the newspaper business. Without robust newspaper journalism, what is to happen to the democracy? McClatchy Symbolic The newspaper chain, the nation’s second largest, publishes the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Sacramento Bee, Kansas City Star, Miami Herald and dozens of other newspapers across the […]

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Editor of Opposing Newspapers?

Posted on February 9, 2019February 24, 2019

One day when I was working part-time in the summer at my dad’s newspaper office, a man came in red and fuming. “You sent me the wrong newspaper,” he said, slapping his copy of The Gallatin Democrat on the counter. “But they are just the same, sir,” I said, “except for the title.” Clearly, he […]

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‘It is required of a man that he share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.” In the blog that follows I hope to live up to those words from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. This quote always appeared on my father's editorial page.

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McClatchy Another Harbinger of the Newspaper Industry’s Sad State

Editor of Opposing Newspapers?