An idea

So one of my ideas for how to manage what I post on this site is to do reviews of random weekly papers from around the United States (and possibly Canada) and see what makes them tick. How they organize themselves, why they exist (do they have a motto?), what gets reported, who publishes [...]

An introduction

This is a new weblog. It is a weblog dedicated to documenting, researching and exploring the phenomenon of the weekly newspaper.
I will here try to argue for the merits of the weekly newspaper as the only real newspaper. With the advent of the Internet and television, specifically 24-hour cable news, the footprint of most major [...]