the American So- ciety of Newspaper Editors, "and less about government meetings."
Big city dailies also face increasing com- petition from suburban newspapers and, especially, local TV news. But TV journal-ists do not elevate the quality of reporting, observes Ehrenhalt. Kevin O'Connor, re- cently elected Milwaukee county trea-

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