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An Obituary for Obituaries
Pajamas Media/Edgelings ^ | December 11, 2009 | Michael S. Malone

Posted on 12/11/2009 2:36:24 PM PST by giant sable

What Americans need right now is a good Government-subsidized obituary.

You probably didn’t read the story – because what red-blooded American reads a newspaper anymore? – but apparently the nation’s newspapers, having already lost their editorial dominance to cable news and the Web, their sports coverage to fan sites, their classifieds to Craigslist, and their editorial pages to the blogosphere, are now under heavy assault on their last profitable redoubt: the obituary page.

(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: newspapers; obituaries

1 posted on 12/11/2009 2:36:24 PM PST by giant sable
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