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Having been subject to the Des Moines Register for some seven years, I say that if the Register is in the top ten, print journalism is very nearly extinct.
Chains continued to buy up U.S. dailies, large and small, during the past ten years, but despite fears of bland homogenization, the average local paper generally grew better. The biggest group, Gannett (85 dailies), has shifted emphasis from moneymaking boosterism to enterprising reporting. Old-fashioned women's pages have...
The Des Moines Register
Hart claims to understand the odds. "I don't expect any overnight miracles, he says. Even so, he seems almost mystically convinced that, if only because his undoctrinaire liberalism represents our party's future," the nomination will somehow, some day, be his. But it was Mondale who convinced...
Pollsters had a say too, the researchers find. The Iowa Poll, conducted by the Des Moines Register, pitted Mondale against President Reagan in December 1982 (Mondale 52%, Reagan 41%). But look further back. The dean of all opinion samplers, George Gallup, matched Mondale against Reagan in May 1980. That was...