The New York Times was born on this day in 1851. So we’ll have some songs about newspapers today, beginning with Smog’s 1997 tune “The Morning Paper.”
Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York and managing editor at the Democratic Strategist website. He was a contributing writer at the Washington Monthly from January 2012 until November 2015, and was the principal contributor to the Political Animal blog.
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