[lit-ideas] Re: Time on my hands, my face, tendons of Achilles
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 15:48:40 -0700
On Apr 2, 2009, at 3:21 PM, carol kirschenbaum wrote:
David Ritchie: ...section of "The Oregonian" for details. Hurry,
while the newspaper is still in business.
ck: Is the Oregonian in trouble, too? Serious trouble or just the
usual whining? The Fresno Bee is alive, being a member of the
relatively robust McClatchy family, but it's running the funnies in
b&w--a sign of true desperation.
The Oregonian threatened to reduce the comics page, but found monies
to "save" all our darlings. I think it's as healthy as a regional
paper can be in these times, which is to say, not very.
I note that someone on the radio recently mooted not-for-profit
status for some papers, along the lines of NPR. Can you imagine the
call-a-thons?
In their current form newspapers are a little more than a hundred
years old. Before that, they were financed by subscription, with
very little revenue from advertising. Newspapers were thin, thickly
printed (by which I mean there was little "white space") and made no
distinction between charm and truth--I'm remembering here a story I
came across when I taught the history of newspapers, "Butterfly seen
in church" was the headline. Editor/publishers relied on travelers
for foreign news, foreign meaning "out of town." The few blogs I
have read remind me of early newspapers.
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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