The lurch in the media business has changed America over the last two decades. Experts agree democracy is different. The disappearance of the printed paper has altered daily life, too. Once they caught up on the world, people used to save the paper for keeping precious memories, protecting floors and furniture, wraping gifts, lining pet cages and lighting fires. Today they live different lives without the print newspaper around. It's joining the pay phone, the cassette tape, the answering machine, bank checks, the sound of the internal combustion engine and white gloves for women as objects that mark the passage of time when they vanish.
