SADNESS

Posted at 6:49 a.m. ET

The New York Sun, one of the great experiments in modern journalism, ceases publication today after a six-and-a-half-year struggle for survival.  A thoughtful, high-level, conservative paper in New York, it made an impression far out of proportion to its size.  It has always faced economic difficulty, but trying to raise capital in the last month finally did the paper in. 

The Sun will be missed.  Those of our persuasion will now depend on The Wall Street Journal, under Rupert Murdoch's well-financed direction, to take on The New York Times directly, and teach it some needed lessons about journalism.

The death of a newspaper is always sad.  The death of this particular one is a particular setback.

September 30, 2008.