PI's 45th ANNIVERSARY -- The Lighter Side

HARD TO KILL: The following headline from 1978 elicited a chuckle, as a similar one had ran earlier this year: "New Moves Could Gut GPO, Curb Commercial Purchases." Not even a stake through the heart. . .

ALL THE NEWS: A rare interview with CNN cable TV news founder Ted Turner proved that people can be both prescient and full of crap at the same time. In the early 1980s, Turner believed that newspapers would be out of business within 10 years, a victim of the inefficiencies of distribution and associated costs, along with competition from emerging technologies. Writer Alan Tepper asked whether a newspaper's portability would be a factor in its continued strength.