Let us look at the image of the newspaper as it still 
is today after a century of the telegraph. That 
image is organized not according to a story line but 
according to a date line. Like a symbolist poem, the 
ordinary newspaper page is an assembly of 
unconnected items in abstract mosaic form. Looked 
at in this way, it is plain that the newspaper had 
been a corporate poem for many years. It 
represents an inclusive image of community and a 
wide diversity of human interests. Minus the story 
line of the connected narrative, the newspaper has 
long had an oral and corporate quality which relates 
it to many of the traditional art forms of mankind. 
On every page of the newspaper, in the