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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

The Death Of Newspapers

Interesting article lamenting the imminent death of newspapers from the New Yorker.


Before Adolph Ochs took over the Times, in 1896, and issued his famous “without fear or favor” declaration, the American scene was dominated by brazenly partisan newspapers. And the news cultures of many European nations long ago embraced the notion of competing narratives for different political communities, with individual newspapers reflecting the views of each faction. It may not be entirely coincidental that these nations enjoy a level of political engagement that dwarfs that of the United States.


The author sees the trend as blogs replacing newspapers. I see it as the many replacing the few. When I only had three bookmarks, they were the New York Times, the Economist, and ESPN. Now I regularly read dozens of bloggers.

A question - if you could only have three news sources, which would they be? (Primary sources only - Reddit doesn't count.)

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