“Everything else, I knew, would pass away some day, like the crumbling statue of the mighty king Ozymandias. But I thought the Britannica would be forever and I would always be ‘co-author of the North Carolina section of the Encyclopaedia Britannica article on the United States.’ ”
— The ubiquitous D.G. Martin, lamenting in his weekly column the loss of “certainly my best job title.”
Martin’s old-media empire is now reduced to newspapers, radio, TV and books.