The New Yorker article Out of Print: The death and life of the American newspaper last week by Eric Alterman doesn't say too much that we all here haven't reported on or said before, but it is an interesting read to get his take on, among many other things of concern to news folk, the Bill Keller speech in Europe that both Aaron and I wrote commentaries upon.

Bill Keller, the executive editor of the Times, said recently in a speech in London, “At places where editors and publishers gather, the mood these days is funereal. Editors ask one another, ‘How are you?,’ in that sober tone one employs with friends who have just emerged from rehab or a messy divorce.” Keller’s speech appeared on the Web site of its sponsor, the Guardian, under the headline “NOT DEAD YET.”