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Originally Posted by frahse
One thing is very clear though. There will be many less print journalists in the future and that means that there will be less of a pool to draw the great journalists from. The great columnists, the great essay writers, the great reporters will also be in shorter supply.
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frahse, I agree with you, but I think it happened many decades ago. A hundred years ago there were newspaper writers like GK Chesterton, but I think that for the past, say, forty years, most of the American columnists have been too partisan for the public to put much faith in their musings.