The demise of big city newspapers is one of the astonishing things of the past 20 years. Two of my relatives were trained in journalism and worked on big city paper staffs for a while.
What astonishes me though, is the amount of writing that goes into the HERMANN newspaper. Recently their staff writer retired. I can’t even describe the number of column inches that guy produced weekly, I mean pages and pages of it. I wonder who got that job and how much he is being paid, but for young journalist who want an opportunity to write —this was it.