| Oct 26, 2022 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThroughout the country, newspaper subscribers are asking questions like: Hey, who took my Saturday paper? What happened to those political cartoons and columns that I liked? Why does it take two days to get election results and sports scores? How did my local paper...
| Oct 19, 2022 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyMy newspaper died. Well, technically it still appears. But it has no life, no news, and barely a pulse. It’s a mere semblance of a real paper, one of the hundreds of local journalism zombies staggering along in cities and towns that had long relied on them. Each one...
| Oct 5, 2022 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyOne noisy piece of the GOP’s culture war bunkum is Critical Race Theory, or CRT — a previously little-known field of academic study examining racism’s central role in shaping our society. But lately, kooky right-wingers have seized the phrase, claiming that CRT is a...
| Jan 19, 2022 | Economy / BusinessRight before our eyes, an invaluable American species is fast disappearing from view: Kartoonus Amerikanas. These are the newspaper cartoonists who’ve long delighted readers and infuriated power elites. And there’s nothing natural about their sudden decline. It’s not...
| Jul 28, 2021 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyMega-investor Warren Buffett once held a big portfolio of daily and weekly newspapers. He specialized in squeezing out competitors so each held a local monopoly. Then he’d chop staff and news content, letting him glean annual profit margins above 30 percent. Alas for...
