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Death of a newspaper

Tuesday, 30th September 2008

The New York Sun, conservative rival to the Old Gray Lady, is closing down after six years of trying to beat the odds. Urging Dick Cheney to run for president was little short of unhinged, and the coverage of Europe often had a whiff of Islamophobia about it,  but the paper did publish some quality pieces too. John McWhorter's column, for instance, was one of my weekly fixes.

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