Machinist

Why I miss the dead-tree newspaper

By Farhad Manjoo

I can skim the print version of the the New York Times in a half-hour. You can't do that online!

Farhad Manjoo is a Salon staff writer covering technology and tech culture. He lives in San Francisco.

Farhad’s new book, “True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society,” examines propaganda on the Web, cable news and talk radio.

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