NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he best movie about newspapers is The Paper, in which Michael Keaton plays an editor at a scrappy tabloid (that is totally not the New York Post) who lays out his editorial vision in a conversation with a snooty editor at a prestigious broadsheet (that is surely not the New York Times), thundering: “I don’t live in the world! I live in New York City!”
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I always thought that was the right point of view for a newspaper editor, because, at least in ye olden days of print, a newspaper was about a place, usually but not always …