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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Hugh Hewitt: The Golden Age of Journalism
Description: In the aftermath of the big layoffs at The Washington Post, there has been an explosion of commentary—again—about the decline of newspapers. But if our concern is about journalism and not simply protecting old newspapers, there’s little to worry about. Readers will always read. News junkies will always find and especially read news. Reading is simply faster than broadcast, so news delivered by text is always going to have a market. “Journalism is a craft, not a profession,” the late Michael Kelly would routinely state when he was a weekly guest on m...