We need vibrant, viable newspapers and magazines, and we have no path to that world anymore. It’s a genuine crisis and I have no idea how it gets better. I won’t, however, engage in the narcissism of suggesting that reading and writing or over. They said that when we got TV and when we got radio too. People will write, and people will read, and I will be among both groups. Whether any of us will be able to make a living doing this, I can’t say. I live within ten minutes drive of the Pez factory. Perhaps in ten years I’ll be happily making Pez by day and printing out my scribblings and posting them on telephone poles in the evening.