A new word for print newspapers: snailpapers -- a term of endearment that newspaper owners could use to poke fun at themselves instead of getting all righteously indignant about new media, and therefore generate more sympathy for the current fortunes of the newspaper business.

Dan Bloom has come up with a new word for newspapers. He calls them “snailpapers.” Only the longtime newspaperman insists this is a term of endearment, not derision. He thinks maybe if newspapers poked more fun at themselves instead of getting all righteously indignant about new media, they would generate more sympathy.

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