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Xark!: The newspaper suicide pact](http://xark.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/06/the-newspaper-suicide-pact.html):

I think I’ll remember last week as the moment when I finally knew, with a certainty approaching fatigue, that the newspaper industry – the business and passion that both shaped and warped me over the past 20 years – had chosen ritual suicide. The choice appears grimly reached and irrevocable.

Via Boing Boing