On the Precipice

“You just have to worry about your own job and the story you’re working on. Newspapers have folded, the mass media has been fractured into niches, and that’s all a reporter there can do now: write good stuff and bust their ass. 

“Anybody left in American journalism today knows they could be out tomorrow.” 

—David Yepsen, veteran political reporter, The Des Moines Register, in “Inside the Shrinking Newsroom of the Newspaper that Shapes the Primaries,” POLITICO, April 26, 2019.

• Editorial Comment: The troops are dwindling.

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