Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Dennis Duggan has died, which I guess we all knew he would some day. His obit says that he "is believed to have been the last former Tribune reporter still working at a New York City paper," but that can't be correct-- didn't Jimmy Breslin write for the Trib?
People in Buffalo-- particularly old reporters-- are fond of reminicing about the Courier-Express, which folded in 1982. I went to law school with some people from the Courier, and know a few more from around, and they seem to have a different patina than the newspaper people that were always with the Buffalo News. Perhaps being associated with a defunct paper lends that sort of aura. Certainly Duggan posessed it; reading his column was one of the reasons the first thing I do when I get off the plane is to pick up a copy of Newsday.
People in Buffalo-- particularly old reporters-- are fond of reminicing about the Courier-Express, which folded in 1982. I went to law school with some people from the Courier, and know a few more from around, and they seem to have a different patina than the newspaper people that were always with the Buffalo News. Perhaps being associated with a defunct paper lends that sort of aura. Certainly Duggan posessed it; reading his column was one of the reasons the first thing I do when I get off the plane is to pick up a copy of Newsday.
// posted by Bill @ 11:59 AM 
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