Youâre reading a newspaper. Thank you. Iâm writing for one, and there soon may not be many left.
According to the 1960 World Almanac, which I carefully selected as my source because I happen to have a copy, there were 1,791 daily newspapers in the United States, with a combined circulation of 57,413, 319 on weekdays and 46,984,686 on Sundays.
Google, that computer know-it-all, reports that in 2020 there were only 1,260 dailies. It says that 488 daily newspapers have disappeared over the last half-century!
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My father was a prodigious reader, and when I was a little boy we had four Philadelphia newspapers delivered to the house. In the morning came the Morning Ledger and The Record. Dad wouldnât buy the Inquirer, because he claimed it was anti-union.   Â