The Last (or at Least Looniest) Newspaper in America

They describe the editor as pugilistic and nursing arbitrary feuds. I happen to live in a place with a one-man paper like the one described, who has the same problem.

Being used to metropolitan papers (with real governance, ethics, etc.) on the one hand, and limp containers for ads on the other, I had not met this beast. It has been educational to say the least.

I never quite understood, at a gut level, A.J. Liebling's notion of "freedom of the press ... for whomever owns one" until this. It's amazing how much power this can give the one who operates it, whether or not they have anything to say.

I think the freedom of the press afforded all of us by the Internet is probably it's most important benefit.