This short piece is the 699th one I have written for Captive on the Carousel.
I mention that because something happened the other day that I had been fearing for quite some time.
I repeated a topic I wrote about less than two months ago.
Sort of.
On November 19th, I wrote a piece titled “Paper Copies of Great Newspapers Becoming Extinct,” talking about how newspapers are rapidly shifting from news-papers to news on their Websites. Papers like the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times have eliminated more than 80 percent of the number of copies they print, and while there may be good things about that (less trash for landfills), in a way it’s sort of heartbreaking.
Then just five days ago, I wrote “An Old Friend Wonders Where His Newspaper Went,” which covered a lot of the same ground. I was able to get away with it because the bulk of the piece was something my old friend Michael Willis wrote about how disappointing his Sunday newspaper has become.
Still, I could have done it differently and not rehashed something I wrote less than seven weeks ago.
Time to concentrate more.
And tomorrow I’ll try and do something special for 700.