"If you have less newspapers and more of these … it may well be the saving of the newspaper industry".
But it's also the worst place to stop if you plan to use the information anywhere else (a term paper or dinner party, much less a newspaper) or base an important decision on what you've read.
"And when, you ask, did traffic inspectors take less?" the newspaper Trud wondered.
Following, a few feet behind, was an older, heavier and much less acrobatic newspaper reporter.
It was an extraordinary institution: "less a newspaper office than an academy, almost in the Athenian sense", Cardus was told on joining.
The Inquirer had won a stream of Pulitzers, and The Daily News had more talented misfits than any prison in America, much less any newspaper.
According to insiders, the NOTW became less a newspaper than a broker or a clearing house for reputations whereby information gleaned about individuals - from Big Brother stars to public figures - became a form of currency for access and influence exercised by editors and executives.
Westchester County, by contrast, has substantially less weekly newspaper coverage -- and perhaps for that reason, the area is quickly warming to The Loop (GetInLoop.com), a new hyperlocal site started last year by Polly Kreisman, a longtime New York broadcast journalist who lives in Larchmont.
I realize that not everyone has such a reverential feeling about the paper (though I suspect there are more of us than you'd think) but I do think that one of the reasons newspapers are losing readers is because they're becoming less like newspapers.
With less competition, newspapers relied less on cartoons to sell copies.
