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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/business/media/12papers.html More newspaper doom and gloom: it’s likely that soon, major US cities will be without a daily paper. See also David Simon’s recent article pointing out that there’s a bunch of things that citizen journalists can’t do, like get judges to badger police when they refuse to give out information. I think papers need to do a better job of complementing and acknowledging the other available sources of news and information, and place less emphasis on reporting the stuff that happened yesterday. A newspaper is a truly terrible source of up-to-the-minute news; there’s no sense pretending that nothing noteworthy ever happens between the time the paper is sent to press and the time a reader buys it. 23:32