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Newspapers Are Like Websites, Only On Paper And With Yesterday's Stories
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The Tampa-St. Petersburg market is now a one-newspaper area, with the troubled Tampa Bay Times just slightly less troubled enough to be able to buy and fold the Tampa Tribune, which will live on only as a nameplate on a local bi-weekly insert into the main paper. And since the Times is essentially the St. Petersburg Times with a new name and a Tampa bureau that treats the Tampa side as secondary, Tampa, a large city, will be without a daily of its own. The positive is that the deal preserves the existence of the Times; the negative is that there's no competition, no range of ideas, no voice to one side of the political spectrum in the papers. The other part, though, is that newspapers aren't the only way to get news anymore. (Tampa Bay Times)
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