Slate And The Myth Of Newspapers Haters

Cord Jefferson of The Awl takes exception to a recent article in Slate entitled “Paper Hangers: Newspapers aren’t doing as badly as you think.”

“Chillax, people,” wrote Daniel Gross, who also works for Newsweek, a newsmagazine that fired lots of people last year before cutting its page count. “I can’t help but think that many newspaper-doomsayers are conflating hope with analysis.” Which brings us to our first problem: Based on this article, it would seem Gross believes there are actual Internet monsters-“newspaper-doomsayers,” “digerati,” etc.-cackling

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