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NEWSPAPERS, YOU MAY HAVE HEARD, ARE DYING. IN the past year 12,000 newspaper workers in this country have lost their jobs. In the past two years the Rocky Mountain News, Baltimore Examiner, Cincinnati Post, Albuquerque Tribune, San Juan Star, and five other metropolitan dailies have closed their offices, while the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press, the Christian Science Monitor, and four other newspapers have shifted to online-only publication.
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In cities across the country, newspapers have cut their staffs in half, eliminated sections of the paper, and closed bureaus. San Francisco could soon find itself without any major newspaper, while bankruptcy threatens the major dailies in Philadelphia, Chicago, and Minneapolis. Meanwhile, the Boston Globe just avoided closure, and The New York Times is drowning in a sea of debt.
SO IT SEEMS POIGNANT OR NOSTALGIC that two of the more interesting films out this spring were about newspapers and the...
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