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To Own The Dominant, Or Only, Newspaper In A Mid-sized American City Was, For Many Decades, A Kind Of License To Print Money. In The Internet Age, However, No One Has Figured Out How To Rescue The Newspaper In The United States Or Abroad.

America's Great Newspapers Have Staffs That Range From 50 Percent To 70 Percent Of What They Were Just A Few Years Ago.

Veteran Print Editors And Reporters At Places Like The 'times' And 'the New Yorker' Manage To Feed And Clothe Their Families Without Costing Their Companies A Million Bucks A Month, And They Produce A Great Deal More Valuable Reporting And Analysis Than The Network News Stars Do.

While History Never Repeats Itself, Political Patterns Do.

But Particularly When The Media Profess To Strive Toward Objectivity, Gatekeepers Play A Crucial Role In Helping People Navigate The News To Make Educated Political Decisions.