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As a departure from the specifics of the business of news:

As a cultural essayist, I agree it is the story telling. The need to hold the written word and gain knowledge.   I sat here in Portland and wrote my mother's obituary for the Dallas Morning News last week.  I used the Oregonian obit section to guide me as my thoughts ran rampant.  I emailed it to Dallas and received within minutes a bill for $634.  They charge by the line.  I cut my 'article' into a very small quip for $300.

I returned to Portland yesterday, picked up the paper and to my horror I saw the obituaries had morphed into headstones. 

Who cares?  When we lose the stories of a person's life experiences, we lose generational knowledge of the stages of life; Our knowledge of what went before us is absent and we have no recall to take us forward.

Judith in NE PDX

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