"Grumps" has referred to a story by Nathan that notes with some dispair the loss or surrender of the Wisconsin State Journal to a lower standard. Click on the post for the post. This has been an evolving story over the past 35 years. As a young copy boy at the Wisconsin State Journal in 1970, I will only say that ....well......the slide down has not been really steep.
On a positive note, www.althouse.com has celebrated her 6,000,000th visitors on Friday. Prof. Althouse has really hit a nerve of interest in topics of a serious nature. So--my conclusion is that the readers are on blogs and not papers. It will be o.k..
If one goes back to the microfiche and looks at the newspapers in the 1920's and 1930's one sees that in the era of Joe DiMaggio, newspapers carried the play by play....It was the newspapers that covered the social scene and the...business news was as good as the New York Times in those days.
The Evansville Observer Archive: The unofficial history of Evansville, Wisconsin from 2005-2013: Thousands of Video and Audio and Articles; Free: To Search scroll to the Search this Blog line and enter name of person, topic, or issue. Then scroll up to see all articles. Or use Google Search by topic. Enjoy.
I blush but cannot take credit. The story in question is by Nathan, the proprietor of At The Tap.
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