11 Reasons To Save The Press

“What’s a kidnapper to do? Print out letters at home using different fonts and point sizes?”

Beth Teitell’s opinion piece in Sunday’s Boston Globe asks this and lists ten other things we won’t be able to do in a paperless world (line birdcages, pack delicate china, hide from the rain when you’ve forgotten your umbrella). Har har, we say, because everyone knows that newsprint isn’t going away even if big, well-funded newspapers are—but then we remember that this was printed in the Globe and so we feel a little sad.

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