Un-Enlightened
December 17, 2004
Newspaper editors around the world have their knickers in a twist over the dominance of TV news, the rising costs of newsprint, and the increasing age of their readership. No papers are safe, not even journalistic standard bearers as great as France's Le Monde. But do Le Monde's travails reflect something deeper than hard times at another daily? Frank Browning reports from Paris that it may also mark the end of an era in the nation where the Enlightenment was born.
