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Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant', it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: After America Appearance Believe Centuries Current Distinction Dubious Few Form Franklin Genuine Imagination Last Longer Newspaper Newspapers Printed Publishing Requires Survive Three Who Will Wonder

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Newspaper companies are losing advertisers, readers, market value, and, in some cases, their sense of mission at a pace that would have been barely imaginable just four years ago.

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Topics: Advertiser Barely Been Cases Companies Four Imaginable Just Losing Market Mission Newspaper Pace Readers Sense Some Value Would Years Years Ago

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Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising-have created a palpable sense of doom.

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Topics: Advent Advertising Circulation Classified Created Daily Doom Internet Look Made Newspaper Out Palpable Rise Sense Slow Trends Which

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To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.

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Topics: Abroad Age American City Decades Dominant Figured How However Internet Kind License Many Money Newspaper Only Out Own Print Rescue States United United States

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If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: Advisory Answer Bloggers Body Busy Discourse Helping Improve Judge Make Necessary Our Peers People Perhaps Public Reliability Sense Some Sort Standard Strictly Uninformed Use Which World

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Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: Accomplishments Argument Been Big Disappointment Few Issue Notwithstanding Obama Presidency Progressives Significant Take Would

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Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: Barack Barack Obama Been Born Carter Could Further Had Hardly He Jimmy Jimmy Carter Kenya Obama Really Speaking

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While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

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Topics: History Itself Never Patterns Political Repeats While

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Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: Between Carter Democrats Difference Increasingly Like Obama Reacting Republicans Seeking Signs Split Warning

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Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: Anything Approaching Argued Centuries Consensus Ever Frequency Israelis Morality Over Philosophers Reaching Some Targeted Technique Theologians Use Without

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: January 14th, 1960

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