Comment; extra!(new newspaper, the 'Sun,' to be launched in New York City)(The Talk of theTown)(Brief Article)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 08-APR-02

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If you are the sort of person who believes that a newspaper is ipso facto exciting in a way that a Web site or a mixed pair of lacquered television announcers behind a desk labelled "Eyewitness News" can never be, and if you think that a newsstand, no matter how many brands of breath mints it carries or cleavage magazines it displays, is unworthy of the name unless its focal point is a bench piled with half a dozen fresh stacks of locally printed broadsheets and tabloids, then you are also the sort of person who will welcome the rising, come Tuesday morning, April 16th, of the Sun. What the Sun will be rising from is the dead. A newspaper by that name was published in this city from September 3, 1833, until January 4, 1950, and the new Sun, though it has no more connection with the old one than Elvis Costello has with Elvis Presley, has no less, either....

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