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pie were. They regularly read long political polemics and freely expressed their opinions. And they actively participated in the workings of local and state governments.
One of the reasons I left the business of reporting political and legislative matters is that most newspapers of any size were downsizing coverage of such things and substituting feel good fluff pieces in order to compete with television news broadcasts. And with all due respect to TV broadcasts, they are for the most part (I am talking about the half hour nightly broadcasts both locally and nationally) pretty superficial.
For instance, let’s say in my reporting days an afternoon General Assembly committee meeting had been called on a very important piece of legislation. And let’s say it lasted three hours. I would sit there the entire three hours taking notes and then trying to report about the
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