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Article: He stopped the presses. (Memoir).('The Last Editor: How I Saved the New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times from Dullness and Complacency')
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- Los Angeles Magazine
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- April 1, 2002
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FEW THINGS FADE FROM MEMORY as fast as discontinued newspapers. Old TV shows live on in syndication; long-defunct bands have K-EARTH. But when a newspaper folds, there's little to remind former readers of what was once a daily part of their lives. If last month's L.A. Timeses are in some landfill, how about copies of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, which shut down its presses more than a decade ago?
This collective amnesia helps explain the subtitle of Jim Bellows's memoirs The Last Editor: How I Saved The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times from Dullness and Complacency (Andrews McMeel Universal, 368 pages, $27). The veteran ...
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