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I Think A Lot Of Newspapers Have Lost Touch With That Sense Of Community, Which So Impressed Me As A Teenager When I Had To Knock On People's Doors.

Internet News Cycles Are By The Minute, And Any Fool Can Take A Headline From The Associated Press And Send It Out As News.

When I First Came To The United States In 1956 I Fell In Love With Things - Mainly The Vitality And The Freedoms.

What I'm Driving At Is Let's Not Lose Sight In Our Excitement Of The Democratization Of The Media That Some Things Are Bad, False And Ugly - And No Amount Of Electronic Gloss Will Make Them True, Beautiful And Accurate.

When Came The Invasion Of Privacy.that Kind Of Thing Turns The Newspaper From A Friendly Organ - Not Necessarily Appeasing Everybody - Into The Enemy. It's One Reason Why Newspapers Have Suffered Circulation Falls.