Whitesboro News-Record (TX)             April 03, 2025,                 by Austin Lewter

To anyone who says, “Newspapers are dead,” I say, “Sit at my desk the Monday after the post office sends a bundle of newspapers to Fort Worth by mistake.”

I say, “Answer my phone when someone has a neighbor whose dog ate their paper.”

I say, “Do my job when someone forgot to renew their subscription on time and, all of a sudden, realized they didn’t get their paper that week.”

The latter two incidents are far more common than the former, but they all occur from time to time. When they do, I field calls from frustrated readers looking for their paper.