Today's issue of the Star-Bulletin was to have been its last before a judge ordered a preliminary injunction to halt the closure. This week nine major national news conglomerates gave their support to the effort to close the Star-Bulletin. A newspaper is more than an alternative news source to TV or the Internet, more than just one you can fold and stuff in your back pocket, or clip a coupon or fill in a crossword puzzle.
Newspapers are the conscience of the community and the champions of the people.
They see what's wrong and try to set it right. Television has the power to capture the drama of life, to give us a semblance of an eyewitness to the day's events. It is eminently updateable. But neither champions the people. Early FCC regulations forbade TV to editorialize.