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Oregonian editor: Shut up, readers

American newspapers aren’t used to groveling. Before the internet gave advertisers more options, many newspapers had a monopoly on advertising – especially with the classifieds. Newspapers were cash cows. Smug cash cows. So smug they didn’t see what was coming their way. As a commenter on Twitter put it this week: “The downfall of newspapers […]

Newspapers: ‘Nobody Knows Anything’

Every time you read a news story that mentions the president’s “jobs bill,” pause and consider that the journalist who wrote those words is living under the likely threat of losing his or her job. What’s it like to write about the decline in solid, middle-class jobs knowing your own might be next? It’s not […]