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1 " As the final computerized decade of the twentieth century came into view, time itself seemed to speed up and compress into smaller and smaller bytes, leaving less and less time over the breakfast table to ruminate on the fascinating aboriginal lore from the Australian outback or on the clandestine Israeli airlift of Ethiopian Jews out of southern Sudan. Readers preferred news that affected their own lives and they wanted it now. Leisure time was a luxury that fewer and fewer times subscribers enjoyed. "
― Dennis McDougal , Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty
2 " The newspaper publisher who hangs around clubs or becomes a crony to sundry businessmen cannot run a good newspaper. "
