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Subject: [OM] OT: Newspaper Declines
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2013 07:03:10 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
     Not too long ago we were discussing the firing of the photographers at the 
Chicago Sun-Times.  Here in Pnoenix they recently discharged 18 staff members 
from the Arizona Republic, owned by Gannett.  This morning I read that the 
Boston Globe was sold for a pittance sum of $70M:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23559329

     Treeware (ink on paper) newspapers are becoming extinct.  I delivered the 
last 5-cent daily newspaper back when I was in high school, and it's really sad 
to see this decline as it's a source of pocket money for kids who are up to 
doing a little work after school.


Chris
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