Thursday, March 17, 2011

In lieu of flowers, please, for the love of God, buy a newspaper

The weekly paper in my town closed this week and ran its own obituary:
The Garner Citizen was preceded in death by the appreciation of quality print journalism. It leaves behind an entire community and numerous struggling writers, editors and designers.

In lieu of flowers, please, for the love of God, buy a newspaper.
Amen. And I hope you will do as I plan to March 28, when The New York Times launches a very reasonable online subscription plan: Buy a newspaper again.

2 comments:

joe p said...

Ouch!

"Newspapering: Biggest Self Whammy of All-Time"

i believe i can attribute that quote to you

jp

travis said...

To be fair, lack of a backup plan may have been the true self whammy.