More paper, more pulp. Technically, there is more information. Less news, less discourse, less wisdom, but more imagery, more color, more fashion models, more breathy descriptions of gadgetry. An indication of how far this has gone comes in the rise of catalog marketing, which has begun to take over where preprint advertising left off. It is no longer a trivial matter for the forests.
Newspapers are the infrastructure of consumption, and consumption begins at the clear-cut.
A Journey Beyond Borders by Richard Manning. Copyright - 2000 by Richard Manning. Richard Manning is the author of six books and was the founder of the Tidepool.org news service. He lives in Montana. Dispatches Global Citizen all dates .