1.0 link 184650 <![CDATA[Why We Need the New York Times]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-baldwin/why-we-need-the-inew-york_b_184650.html For many years, I was a devoted reader of the New York Times. An unusually devoted one.

I picked up the habit from David O'Brien, an actor who played my father on a soap opera I appeared on over 25 years ago. It was my first professional job, and I watched O'Brien as he passed his down time by scouring the paper from cover to cover and doing the crossword along the way.

I picked up the paper every day, back...

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