Something strange happened in the days immediately after Barak Obama
was elected to be the next President of the United States. People
started buying newspapers. Like, a lot of them.
Around the country -- in Washington, D.C., New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Shreveport, La., Allentown, Pa. -- thousands of extra issues of the Nov. 5 editions,
the ones with headlines about Obama's win plastered across their front
pages, had to be printed to accommodate demand. Customers lined up, for
hours in some cases, in stores and outside newspaper offices to get their hands on a copy. When many of them were asked why, they said they wanted a copy to keep for their children or grandchildren.
Which raises a question in my mind: Will our children and grandchildren even want to have a copy of a newspaper from that day?
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