Only by means of such discipline can the young man acquire that physical loathing for the beloved and much-admired elegance of style of our newspaper manufacturers and novelists, and for the ornate style of our literary men.

Feel free to cover Amazon any way you want. Feel free to cover Jeff Bezos any way you want.

But it's really dangerous to demonize the media. It's dangerous to call the media lowlifes. It's dangerous to say they're the enemy of the people.

The Post is famous for its investigative journalism. It pours energy and investment and sweat and dollars into uncovering important stories. And then a bunch of websites summarize that [work] in about four minutes and readers can access that news for free. One question is, how do you make a living in that kind of environment? If you can't, it's difficult to put the right resources behind it. ... Even behind a paywall, websites can summarize your work and make it available for free. From a reader point of view, the reader has to ask, 'Why should I pay you for all that journalistic effort when I can get it for free from another site?'

How in God's name do you let such paragraphs into the Tribune? ... I confess it astonishes me.

Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.