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11/08
General Blithering about Newspapers.
Admittedly, I’m a big nobody in terms of the print world. I’ve had a couple things published, but really, not a whole lot of people are really listening to me. And that’s okay. I don’t mind. I don’t expect a whole lot out of the newspaper world any more.
And recently we’ve seen the two major newspapers (that are hanging on by a thread around here) hollering to anyone that will listen (the numbers of which are shrinking by the day) that Newspapers Are Back. Why are Newspapers Back? Because a billion people ran outside and picked up an issue a couple weeks ago Wednesday. Maybe you saw it – it had a big picture of a guy named Barack Obama on it.
Oh – and Oprah says so. So obviously, they must be on the upswing. (more…)