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Friday, February 17, 2006 12:00 AM

All the news stuff that's fit to print

Facing a slow death, newspapers are desperately trying to reach young readers with dumbed-down tabloids full of stories about Kobe, Britney and dental bling.
By Farhad Manjoo

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  • Thursday, February 16, 2006 07:30 PM

    Bling Bling

    And this dumbing down thing is different from Salon's turn to Broadsheet style pop-culture "feminism," lashing anonymous trolls into a froth of "letters" to the "editor," publishing 2.5 year old photographs in the name of 'journalism,' an increased presence of crappy but controversial writers and other self-serving, cynical tricks to increase clicks exactly how?

    —smcrae

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