Re-reading his talk
Pete Hamill: “Some of this, in my opinion, has been our fault. Over the last quarter of a century, in too many newspapers, we’ve trivialized the newspapers as if trying to capture the TV audience; to capture the youth audience; to capture the ‘dumb guy’ audience. Dumbing the paper down is not smart even as business, but there was a relentless move down, and I think that is showing in what’s happened to so many papers. If you put out printed television, people will just watch television.”