What do you think Mr. Blue offered his readers that, say, Dear Abby or Ann Landers did not?
Their columns were terribly constricted by space, which is hard to understand. People love to read about other people’s problems. Everybody knows this. But newspaper editors are complete dolts when it comes to understanding readers. We read because we love to, and newspaper editors edit the papers for people with serious reading disabilities. So Abby and Ann had to write postcards. Everything was shrunk. A few scant details and then some blithering generality. (Wake up and smell the coffee. Talk to your doctor. Let me know what happens, I care.) This is why magazines have a future, including online ones. This is why I subscribe to the New York Times — because, unlike most local newspapers, it assumes that the reader is interested. Why did you stop? Did you feel you’d said all you had to say? Yes. Do you miss it? Do you ever think of doing it again? Yes. No. If you could give me one piece of advice, what would it be? Get outside more and take long walks. Much sadness is caused by lack
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