Sarah’s Reviews > The Paris Correspondent: A Novel of Newspapers, Then and Now > Status Update

"News was what really sold newspapers. News was what the reader wanted - hard fact, history's dawn, truth you could base a judgment on. But when newspapers perished it was because people like Duffie figured that the creation of "content" to separate the ads - in the paper or on the web - was a mechanical process that could be achieved without people like Shelby. Like me. No new was very bad news indeed."