SOME TIME ago I suggested that newspaper people weary of reading the gloomy forecasts for the future of their business need only watch “Deadline USA” to get their fire back.
It’s still a good idea — few scenes can get a journalist’s blood stirring better than that movie’s closer, when a gangster, the subject of an expose in Humphrey Bogart’s (dying) newspaper, asks Bogart over the phone what the racket is in the background.
“That’s the press, baby,” Bogart replies. “The press. And there’s nothing you can do about it.”
Now, thanks to Allison Hantschel, I have another suggestion. Hantschel is a former editor of the UW-Madison’s century-plus-old student newspaper, The Daily Cardinal, and she has just published a book, “It Doesn’t End With Us: The Story of The Daily Cardinal.” It’s not just a great yarn about a newspaper but an interesting history of the University of Wisconsin and the city of Madison as well.