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The first journalist to make the move from print to online-only was Mike Monroe. He was ahead of his time. Few remember Monroe’s stint as the national columnist for Fox Sports, and even fewer probably remember the circumstances of his departure — it came out of nowhere, the folks at Fox believing it was a bad idea to have an online national columnist — a decision that was patently absurd in hindsight, but a decision that Fox has never rectified. Shortly after his