The Twilight of Reporting

OBITUARY NOTICE: Dead, of complications, old-time American reporting, victim of automated news-gathering techniques, high cost and the race for the advertising dollar

Americans are supposed to be able to read because general education has been compulsory in most parts of the country for more than a century. In recent years, youngsters have been required to remain at school in some places, willy-nilly, until they are 16 years of age; 18 in others. Surely, in so many years almost anyone would learn something about something.

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George E. Sokolsky

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OBITUARY NOTICE: Dead, of complications, old-time American reporting, victim of automated news-gathering techniques, high cost and the race for the advertising dollar

Americans are supposed to be able to read because general education has been compulsory in most parts of the country for more than a century. In recent years, youngsters have been required to remain at school in some places, willy-nilly, until they are 16 years of age; 18 in others. Surely, in so many years almost anyone would learn something about something.