Dead Trees and Live Wires
There's nothing quite like reading a good newspaper the day after an election, and I was excited just anticipating the special election section that I hoped would still be part of my NY Times on Wednesday. And there it was, or was it? 15 pages full of news. A long article on the Obama campaign, analysis and results and pictures. Reading galore that occupied me the entire way on an evening walk into Manhattan. And then I could attack the Washington Post on my Kindle. But where was the four page regional wrap-up of every single state's results? Will those show up in tomorrow's paper when all of the results are actually in, or are they gone forever as being too yesterday's news that we've all long since found on the internet if we really really wanted to see it? But then again, there was nothing quite like having a broadband connection on election eve to follow the results in ways I never could have imagined 10 or 20 years ago. Go to nytimes.com and there's