A reality check on the good old days of local papers from Andrew Grant-Adamson: "What struck me as the [50-year-]old microfilm image came up on the records office screen was that the [East Anglian Daily Times] is now providing more local news than it was. First there was the size: eight pages broadsheet then and 48 tabloid now (Mondays). That is a tripling of the area of newsprint to be filled. Granted pictures and much much bigger headlines fill much of that extra space. Yet the paper clearly provides a larger volume of local news now than it did in 1958." Read More...