“Newspapers are dead,” a solemn but dubious audience of students heard. “In 10 years, they’ll be gone altogether.”
We’ve all heard the grim assessment.
But it didn’t come this year, when corporate greed downsized far too many newsrooms.
It didn’t come 15 years ago, when social media began to cocoon us into echo chambers that let us hear only what we believe.
It didn’t come 30 years ago, at the…