There are two kinds of newspaper stories these days. One kind is the old-fashioned one that tell us something we don't know. The others --- now feeding on themselves in near-frenzy -- tell us about the unabated decline of the newspaper trade itself.
Sometimes, the cross paths, as if in irony, or in warning of how closely the two kinds of stories are connected. (On the timing, it seems like it is coincidence. Says McClatchy (MNI) VP/News Howard Weaver: "While the timing of the Guantanamo project is of course inadvertent, I do think it's a worthy counterpoint.")
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