That's the Press, Baby
That's because department stores and newspapers have been joined at the hip since the late 1800s, writes the Philadelphia Inquirer's
David Sullivan. "It was department store advertising that largely enabled newspaper publishers to buy the rotary presses that created the modern mass-circulation newspaper. It was newspaper advertising that let department stores draw customers from across the community, the region and the state."
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From Sullivan's e-mailed blog introduction: "Yes, it's true, sated by publication of an occasional
letter to Romenesko, I just find myself unable to shut up."
(Romenesko Misc.)
He could use a little help with his vocabulary, too....
