The Economy | Papers' future is, as ever, volatile
Philadelphia Inquirer, The, March, 2006 by Andrew Cassel
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"The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of Black Beauty . Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings."
Anyone who thinks the current upheaval in the newspaper business represents something new should look up the source of the above-quoted passage.
It's from A.J. Liebling, the late, great press critic for the New Yorker magazine. He was describing the closing of the New York World, an event that left Liebling and 2,800 other newspaper people jobless in 1931.
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Liebling died in 1963, but he would have had a field day with this week's announcement that Knight Ridder Inc., owner of this newspaper ...
