‘The Paper’ depicts local journalism’s sad decline

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In 2013, The Onion nailed a headline about the newspaper business: “Economically Healthy Daily Planet Now Most Unrealistic Part Of Superman Universe.”
NBC’s new sitcom The Paper, a spinoff of The Office, marries the same kind of gallows humor about the state of community journalism with a…

This story appeared on unherd.com, 2025-09-08 01:27:57.
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