Entries Tagged as 'Why newspapers are important'

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Banning books from newspapers

This week — Sept. 29-Oct. 3 — is Banned Banned Books Week.
But you wouldn’t know it if you read most American newspapers.
Am I missing something? Newspapers live and die on getting Americans to read but they do everything but.
The only mention I’ve heard of this year’s Banned Book Week is on radio. Isn’t that bizarre?
You’d […]

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Castor oil and newspapers: Why both are important

No.1
When I was a young and callow reporter, I sat through a “visioning” session in the small city I worked in, dutifully writing all the suggestions about the city’s future and what could be done to make it a better place to live in.
In the group I was in, I noticed one prominent business executive […]