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The Death of a Newspaper
Posted: March 22, 2009
Is the P-I's demise a sign of the times?…
Yes it's true. The P-I's folded.
It's a sign too of the Times.
As that giant globe stops spinning,
we'd best read between the lines.
Journalism as we've known it
(home delivery and newsstands)
can't survive the online revol.
Ink on newsprint has few fans.
Hearst is hurting. So's the Tribune.
What was king is now a page.
Soon that page will be a jester.
That's the bad news of our age.
P-I paper? Morning coffee?
Sad to say the first has died.
Once a marriage made in heaven.
Now it's over. Have you cried?
Having grown up in the Seattle area, I was exposed to both the morning Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the afternoon Seattle Times. The shut down of the P - I is like the death of a family member. From the time I was in elementary school, I remember paperboys on street corners and at sporting events shouting out "P - I paper!" But, alas, after more than 140 years of publishing a morning newspaper, the Post-Intelligencer is no more.
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