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More from the “why don’t they love us more” campaign: Jill Abramson, managing editor of The New York Times, appearing on U.S. cable channel MSNBC this week (to promote sales of a new book about the Obama campaign): “It bothers me … to give away this journalism that I more than anyone see immense value [...]

I am not impressed by The Printed Blog — a Chicago start-up that plans to reprint blog posts on regular paper, surrounded by local ads, and distribute the publications free in big cities.

I like newspapers, a lot.  I subscribe to two newspapers in print, and read dozens more each morning online. But I don’t rely on newspapers for news.  By the time the morning newspaper arrives (or posts online) the news is old, obsolete.  I get my breaking news online, via text message and Twitter, or through [...]

On the day The New York Times outed a “senior fellow at the Institute of Nonexistence,” New Yorkers were passing around a special edition of the Times that declared the end of the war in Iraq. Thousands of free copies were distributed at subway stations and public squares throughout the city. I snared a collector’s [...]