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"Television advertisements didn’t detract, all that much, from print. "

That is flatly untrue. Do you know how many daily newspapers New York had before the advent of television (many of which had both morning and evening editions)? If you are going to do these grand histories, you need to know what you are talking about first.

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> One of the biggest shifts from Empire to post-Empire was the utter annihilation of news beyond the major markets of New York, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C. Media outlets would suffer there as well, with the strength of secondary newspapers declining markedly...

I think I've banged this drum before in this comment section and elsewhere, BUT: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, SOMEONE IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA REALLY SHOULD WRITE AN ARTICLE ABOUT THE SCHNEPS FAMILY AND THEIR CONTINUING ENSHITTIFICATION OF EVERY SINGLE LOCAL PAPER IN THE OUTER BOROUGHS OF NYC. Josh Schneps deadass was asked "do you force your writers to write endorsements for your favored candidates and pass them off as reportage?" and said "only some of the time." There is a serious case to be made, given how close the race ended up being, that Schneps Media got Eric Adams elected mayor.

Given Victoria Schneps' favored mode of politics is depoliticized centrism of the sort that's off-trend both within the Acela corridor and at lefty mags, you would expect someone would have written a killer takedown of her by now, even if just out of naked tribalism. But I guess that require media professionals to care about the outer boroughs of the city in which they ostensibly live, which may be too much to ask. :V

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I remember having a blackberry pearl and a palm pilot and thinking .... this is the pinnacle. The Information Age has arrived.

Not so fast.

Great write up - you’ve pinned down that era quite well. It was a memorable day when Rocky Mountain News hit the front www page of newspaperdeathwatch.com

Quite a bit of synchronicity that you noticed it as well.

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