Jon K. Lauck: Who Stopped the Presses?
The author of “The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest,” on what we lost when we lost our once great newspapers.
By Jon K. Lauck
I recently spoke to a friend in Illinois who noted that she couldn’t find anyone to talk to at the newspaper in Springfield, the state capital. All the reporters and editors were gone that day and the paper was just running Associated Press wire stories in its pages. The lights were on, but nobody wa…
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