2/26/2002
Here is yet another sweet and insightful Adair Lara column about the joys and rewards of column-writing for both reader and writer.
Enjoy it because it's among her last columns. After 12 years of excellent work, she is being dropped by the San Francisco Chronicle as a columnist because, according to her husband, hip-and-happening young mangers think her work appeals to the wrong demographics. She's 50. They want someone who will bring in 20-something nonreaders. Somebody a Howard Stern listener can get into.
And they wonder why newspapers are dying.
Enjoy it because it's among her last columns. After 12 years of excellent work, she is being dropped by the San Francisco Chronicle as a columnist because, according to her husband, hip-and-happening young mangers think her work appeals to the wrong demographics. She's 50. They want someone who will bring in 20-something nonreaders. Somebody a Howard Stern listener can get into.
And they wonder why newspapers are dying.
