Jack Shafer compares the newspapers of the early 1970s with today’s papers and comments:
The connection between quality and head count would seem intuitive, but a dip into the microfilm archives of the New York Times and Washington Post shows that decent newspapers have been produced with far fewer hands.
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Meanwhile, found via Betsy Newmark, Amity Shlaes ponders how much a newspaper’s bias is based on geography and giving readers a viewpoint they expect, versus the ideology of their ownership.
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