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SAM ZELL'S HEROIC DECONSTRUCTION OF ICONIC NEWSPAPERS

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Television and the Internet have already wounded newspapers with celebrity and (endless) opinion pieces. What remains--even though better papers than Zell's seem to misunderstand it--is the thing that made newspapering worthwhile in the first place, investigative reporting.

In the 35 years since Woodward and Bernstein brought down Richard Nixon, newspapers have slowly watched the relevance they once held as Thomas Jefferson's hope for a free and activist press to counter-balance political malfeasance. Bought off, forced off or gone by their own disinterest in anything but their latest stock-price--take your pick of reasons for the decline.

But at a time when the newspapering business needs less Wall Street and more Bully Pulpit, Sam Zell is more undertaker than evangelist.

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