I like newspapers and we subscribe to two dailies at our house. But in truth I find myself reading the news online, not in dead tree form. We all know the newspaper business is in big trouble. Which is why there is something just a little creepy about this 1981 news story on San Francisco TV station KRON (hat tip Boingboing):
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Hey Edmund, you're on the wrong thread, go to today's Freethinker one.
Can we retire "dead tree" already? It was already old years ago.