[AEJMC Newspaper Division list] Innocuous desuetude

Michael Abrams meabrams at earthlink.net
Sun Jul 20 09:17:45 CDT 2008


Why not vote? If no change is needed, then it will be reflected by that
vote. 

Will newspapers cease to print? Nailed to a cross of greed? Forbid it,
Almighty God! Yet, no one remembers much about Morse Code, Pluto Water or
Battenberg insertions. It may be, despite out best wishes and fond memories,
newspapers, victimized by innovation, will end up in that slough of despond,
to steal the apt phrase of President Grover Cleveland, in a state of
'innocuous desuetude.'

(credit Wm. Jennings Bryan, John Bunyan, S.J. Perelman, Grover Cleveland,
H.L. Mencken, Samuel Finley Breese Morse)

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