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------------------ From: David Greenberg <davidgr@rutgers.edu> Subject: RE: J-History: About those disappearing dailies Date: November 12, 2009 9:03:19 PM EST Also, see this article by Jack Shafer, quoting Mark Sullivan's Autobiography http://www.slate.com/id/2221856/ He quotes Sullivan: I am not sure that a young man beginning in journalism in 1938 would find opportunity in as great a mood of welcome as one who began about the turn of the century. About 1925 and after, advertising, which once fed the printed word alone, began to divide with the spoken word, the radio. The number of periodicals and newspapers began to contract. The little town of West Chester, when I started there in 1892, had three daily papers; by the 1920s it had but one. Philadelphia, when I spent a while on a paper there in 1900, had five important morning papers, four evening ones; by 1938 the numbers were two and two, respectively. In every city similar contraction took place. ------------------------------------------------------- jhistory@H-NET.MSU.EDU http://www.h-net.org/~jhistory -------------------------------------------------------
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