Remember when the computer was to usher in the “paperless society?” The Kindle is supposed to usher in a bookless — hence, paperless — world. Newspapers are going belly up.
Mo Rocca, the panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!, reports the use of paper doubled after the prediction of the paperless society. It’s part of the debut of an online show, The Tomorrow Show.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
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