Aug 24th 2006
From The Economist print edition
The most useful bit of the media is disappearing. A cause for concern, but not for panic
?A GOOD newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself,? mused Arthur Miller in 1961. A decade later, two reporters from the Washington Post wrote a series of articles that brought down President Nixon and the status of print journalism soared. At their best, newspapers hold governments and companies to account. They usually set the news agenda for the rest of the media. But in the rich world newspapers are now an endangered species.
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