Financial Times, June 21, 2006
By Michael Copps

Americans have always been crazy for news. When Alexis de Tocqueville toured the nations back roads nearly two centuries ago, he marvelled at the astonishing circulation of letters and newspapers among these savage woods. De Tocqueville chalked this up to our uniquely local politics. Under a centralised government, a handful of national newspapers might have been enough.

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