Knowing that we’re living in the midst of the greatest shift in communication ever, doesn’t make it any easier to deal with the angst and sadness when things like the Hearst Corp. announced Monday that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer will print its last newspaper edition and become exclusively Web-based as seattlepi.com, making it the nation’s largest daily newspaper to move to online only. Newspapers are toast.
From Shorpy.com (one of my favorite sites) comes this photo from Brockton, Massachusetts in December 1940. “Men and a woman reading headlines posted in window of Brockton Enterprise newspaper office on Christmas Eve.” 35mm Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
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