...You can’t always tell if you’re not getting a complete news report for the simple fact that you don’t know what it is that you’re not getting.
Click play to listen. Recorded on November 2, 2008.
With his new novel mischievously titled Black and White and Dead All Over (2009) set at a fictional New York newspaper, John Darnton has thought hard about the fate of the traditional ink-on-newsprint urban daily in today’s new era of blogs, tabloids, The Daily Show, and plummeting circulation. Darnton, a longtime editor and reporter at The New York Times, provides a not-so-cheerful diagnosis and ponders what, if anything, is to be done.
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