OK, I stole the line above from the marvelous look at newspaper history in the latest New Yorker magazine. Jill Lepore goes back to the founding of the republic to discuss ties between newspapers and liberty. She recounts other times when the demise of newspapers was trumpeted, as she says, "online, blog by blog, where the digital gloom over the death of an industry often veils, if thinly, a pallid glee." For those tempted to ignore history, Lepore gives us an excellent lesson of what might be lost. Or maybe not.
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