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A.J. LIEBLING noted long ago that freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one. Liebling didn't find that state of affairs to be appropriate, but where is the owner of a major newspaper who would not defend that principle?
In 1959, covering Earl Long's last race for Governor, the great A.J. Liebling wrote, "Politics is to the conversation of Louisiana what horse racing is to England's. In London, anyone from the Queen to a dustman will talk horses; in Louisiana, anyone from a society woman to a...
If anything distinguished the Memphis closing from a cortege of other newspaper deaths in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Sarasota, Fla., Tampa, Washington and, provided a buyer is not found soon, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, it was the Press-Scimitar's swinish attitude toward reporters from outside. The Press...
Sensitive land-use laws earn high marks from the roving reporters. Wisconsin and Oregon are paragons of progressivism. But woe unto the state that suffers from a bad revenue base. New Hampshire, which taxes neither sales nor income, is an unfortunate case in point. Residents must pay unusually high levies...
"There should be a great, free, living stream of information, and equal access to it for all," Liebling wrote. "Our present news situation, in the United States, is breaking down to something like the system of water distribution in a casaba, where peddlers wander about with goatskins of water on...