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“. . . Journalists chronicle, and to some extent celebrate, the malaise of institutions, often warning religious leaders, for example, that they risk alienating the faithful with their orthodox teachings. But those same journalists are understandably more circumspect in acknowledging something only recently noticed by the public—that there has also been a major decline in public attention paid to the “prestige media” and, as with the mainline churches, efforts to stop this hemorrhaging have not been successful. In a sense, the troubles of the Episcopal Church and the New York Times are identical. . . . ”
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