I Think America Has A Brilliant Future.

For 50 Years My Father Worked For The Railroad.

I Love Craftsmanship Of Any Kind, A Job Well Done Either By My Chiropractor Or Carpenter, And I Am Addicted To Print, The Type, The Ink. But My Basic Passion Is Journalism And I Can't Live Without Being Online.

[the Web] Is Going To End Up Being A Tremendous Advantage, Providing We Can Work Out The Financial Structure. I Think We’ll See Newspapers Survive, Being Printed At Home... Or You’ll Have A Local Print Shop, So That Rather Than Waiting For The Newspapers To Arrive By Truck, Which Is 30 Percent At Least Of A Newspaper’s Cost, You’ll Go In And Push A Button, And It Will Take Your Dollar Bills Without Anyone Having To Be There. And It Will Print The Newspaper For You While You Wait. It Will Take Seven Minutes. There’s A Terrific Future For Print In My View And It Gives Me Great Heart.

Internet News Cycles Are By The Minute, And Any Fool Can Take A Headline From The Associated Press And Send It Out As News.

I Had Been At The Newspaper For A Few Months. It Wasn’t Regarded As The Paper, It Was Their Paper. There Was A Sense Of Community Because They Reported, We Reported, I Reported The Little Things, The Whist Drives, The Weddings, The Funerals, The Little Speeches. In One Sense It Was The Most Boring Copy In The World To Anyone Picking It Up, But, On The Other Hand, It Was Crucial To The People Who Lived In Those Communities.