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by Alison True on June 20th 2008 - 2:54 p.m.

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While Mike's away we'll check in with some links to help fill the painful void.

Porfolio's got Howell Raines musing on Jim Romenesko's alleged impact on journalism, and Andy DeLong, calling Raines's piece "perhaps the strangest article I have ever read," digests some of the nastier passages.

Here's Jack Shafer on the long association between Tim Russert and Robert Novak.

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John Milton's Areopagitica (1643), one of the earliest and most eloquent arguments for a free press. Said Milton: "As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye."

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