AP This is an opinion column.
This week the Washington Post killed its free commuter paper, Express . Newspapers have died before, and typically, when they go, a warm, bittersweet staff photo anchors the front page. Somewhere above it in big letters, there’s a “Thank You” and/or “Goodbye.”
But not this time.“Hope you enjoy your stinkin’ phones,” the paper’s last front page told its readers.Express wanted everyone to understand its death came at the hands of technological progress.I’ve seen a lot of … progress .I’ve done about every job there is at a newspaper, not just this one. I’ve burned […]
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