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USA Today on the "Bite-Sized Nuggets" News Trend

By AAN Staff
november 17, 2003  01:17 pm
USA Today on the "Bite-Sized Nuggets" News Trend
The Gannett paper that arguably started the trend reports on the daily newspaper industry's response to its ongoing readership decline. Newspaper analyst John Morton claims the industry's new quick-read publications "shout 'this is not your father's newspaper.''' AAN's Richard Karpel says they're "just dumbed-down news" and complains, ''(a)t a time when 70% of the public thinks Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11, the last thing we need is dumber newspapers."
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