Check the date on the screengrab below, good people. Look at the time. It is a snapshot of the exact moment when The Age died.
True, the corpse may not get gooey for some while yet. But in years to come it will be said with sadness, yes, but also certainty: the afternoon of October 26, 2016, was when what had been the best newspaper in the country one short generation before ceased to be.
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