One-Man Band

“I really believe that as large newspaper chains cut staff of small newspapers, and small newspapers wither and die, that’s going to cause major problems in communities. Somebody needs to pick up the slack and, at least in this community, I’m able to do that.”

 

—Darrell Todd Maurina, Waynesville, Missouri, news blogger who stepped up to fill the news void when the local newspaper died, in “Decline in readers, ads leads hundreds of newspapers to fold,” Associated Press, March 11, 2019.

• Editorial Comment: Last voice in the old marketplace of ideas.

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Sailors at Rest

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