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A few of these reasons boil down to "Newspapers were never that good, and competition is rough on them." Something to keep in mind the next time you see a sob-
by Semiapies 17y ago
A few of these reasons boil down to "Newspapers were never that good, and competition is rough on them."
Something to keep in mind the next time you see a sob-piece on the poor, downtrodden city newspaper.
- tptacek 17y agoMy library offers full-text search for the Trib's archives back to the 1890's, and so I searched for my home address to see if, you know, anyone had ever died in my house (answer: two people have! Jackpot!). What I learned in the process of doing that search was how unbelievably biased the newspapers were at the turn of the century. There was minute up-to-the-minute reporting on every conceivable detail of the city, but it was laced with political agenda. You were getting a whole lot of information, but it was no more trustworthy than a blog post.