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From Russell Baker
The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.
There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.
The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.
Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.
Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.
Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.
A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.
Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.
Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.
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