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I know this is kind of long for a blog, but I thought I'd share this column I wrote with you online folks.
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I didn’t grow up in a newspaper family, but rather I grew up in a family that read newspapers.
What I mean by that is no one in my family had ever worked in newspapers before me. In fact, in my family, my generation was the first to speak English as a primary language. My uncle remembers his grade-school teachers sending notes home with him telling my grandparents to speak English at home so he could learn English and become a better student.
But, every person in my family loved or loves reading newspapers. I can trace that love of newspapers (and reading, really) directly back to my Mother, who was a connoisseur of all things words. The love of reading newspapers is a tradition I try to instill in my son still today.
First, a little history: In my hometown of Denver, two newspapers battled it out for supremacy. One, the Rocky Mountain News, a tabloid,...
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