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Onion: End of Print Journalism Disproportionately Affects Loons

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reine.de.tout3/06/2010 1:42:56 pm PST

re: #5 wrenchwench

I visited an aunt in Chicago in the summer of 1973. She was saving every article on Watergate, and had stopped cutting them out, she just saved the whole paper. Stacks everywhere. She’s still a bit odd, but she has a husband who keeps the dangerous behavior in check…

Modern loons will have old keyboards and mice and printers stacked everywhere.

And site bookmarks all over their computers, with so many categories they can’t even find anything. (I’m close to being there myself, right now! But at least I don’t have stacks of paper).

Wrenchwench-
I bought and kept Time, Newsweek, USNews magazines for:
1. Nixon
2. the assassination attempt on Reagan
3. Some other events through time.

I figured some day it will be interesting to look back at the coverage of things then, compared to whatever is current.