Here's something I realized, looking up old newspaper coverage my great-aunt's 1915 venture into being the only woman in DC who drove a jitney: Compared to the newspapers of today, the newspapers of 1915 ran a *lot* more stories that were interesting but that didn't matter much.
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And the newspapers of 1915 didn't try to make stories that didn't matter much into something they weren't, either. They ran tons of little stuff. They wrote about *vast* amounts of minor doings in their community.
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Glancing over 1915 issues of the WASHINGTON EXAMINER, I was struck by how much richer and more comprehensive a picture it painted of community life in Washington, DC, than does an issue of the WASHINGTON POST today.
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Maybe one reason people aren't buying as many newspapers as they used to is that newspapers don't have that much to offer them.
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Also, there is likely a relationship b/w whether a story “matters”, whether it’s worth lying about, and (therefore) the avg reliability of the info
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