TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2007
Vanity Fair
Maybe the billionaires who know nothing about newspapers will stumble onto something that makes them shout and sing, says
Michael Wolff. Today's newspapers, he says, are "personality-less, reliable, bureaucratic, and, until very recently, throwing off lots of free cash flow. In this public-utility age of newspapers, the institutional blandness which resulted -- reporters themselves, once clever and disreputable, became something like public-service employees, seeing themselves with the beleaguered virtue of schoolteachers -- helped turn newspapers into a medium for old people (newspapers are for people who remember newspapers)."
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