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Pretty Much Everything That’s Wrong with Newspapers …

… summed up in one nice little piece from Kevin Naff at HuffPo:

One senior manager hired from print took a seat beside my desk and quietly typed a lengthy memo on his first day. When finished, he turned to me and whispered, “How do you type a capital letter?”

Mystified, I walked over and peered over his shoulder. Turns out he’d always had a secretary in print-land and had never typed his own memos. And so his first memo as a web staffer lacked any capital letters or punctuation.

“Shift,” I whispered back to him.

Kevin D. Williamson is a former fellow at National Review Institute and a former roving correspondent for National Review.
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