DOA Today

Al Neuharth, the man who tracked America’s feelings on nuclear war and puppies with equally colorful bar graphs and charts, has died at the age of 89 from injuries signed on a recent call. As the head of the Gannett empire, Neuharth helped ruin the newspaper industry by putting profits ahead of good journalism by plumbing new depths in shallow news. Not that his newspapers hadn’t long since given up good reporting in favor of 4 paragraph news nuggets that lulled readers into believing they knew what was going on in the world while never being more uninformed.