1999 Media Outlook: Newspapers

Donald E. Graham

Discusses the state of U.S. newspapers in 1999, and predictions for the future.

1999 Media Outlook – Newspapers

Donald E. Graham, The Washington Post

The world financial crisis, new kinds of terrorism, amazing advances in genetic engineering and other realms of science – not to mention the year-long debate over the Clinton scandals – all mark reasons why newspapers are the most important way of distributing serious news in the United States and will remain so.

These are stories you can’t understand from a one-minute television news report or from a confusing array of information sources on the Internet. It takes an attentive and serious newspaper that cares about its...

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