Gangrey
Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

'Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend'

James Rainey: Want to get under a newspaper person's skin? Tell them you don't need their work because you get most of your news from the Internet.

Inky survivors can't stand to hear that because they know that — technological advances and upstart websites notwithstanding — the bulk of news on the Web actually still originates with newspaper reporters.

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