Yeah, there are pieces missing in this puzzle—like that magazine I did that cover for in 1989 (top right—remember stage directions?). Taylor Swift wasn't born yet. Arnie was an actor not a player. I do believe
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Ladies Home Journal have gone down the tubes, too. Correct me if I'm wrong. Magazines used to be big, fat and vigorous, and so were newsstand sales. Stacks of newspapers (including
New York Newsday), bursting with ads, teetered beneath.
But then even I don't read magazines or print newspapers any more.
I'm not sure about the candy—are they all still manufactured?
Here's an
interesting piece called "The Bad News About the News from the Brookings institute. Read all about it (online) and weep.
That is a well-done and very worrisome piece. But I'm a fossil who still gets two print papers and several magazines still (although not news) and still has a landline. Danielle
ReplyDeleteGot out of the habit of reading the actual paper on Block Island—it comes in by ferry, and I like the news earlier, with my coffee. Plus I move around so much I can't have print stacking up outside my doors as well as bills!
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