and personal preference, and for whom all corporate media, not 
only radio and the press but ordinary popular speech as well, 
are debased forms of human expression and experience. Here I 
must repeat that the newspaper, from its beginnings, has 
tended, not to the book form, but to the mosaic or 
participational form. With the speed-up of printing and news-
gathering, this mosaic form has become a dominant aspect of 
human association; for the mosaic form means, not a 
detached “point of view,” but participation in process. For that 
reason, the press is inseparable from the democratic process, 
but quite expendable from a literary or book point of view.

     Again, the book-oriented man misunderstands the 
collective mosaic form of the press when he complains about 
its endless reports on the seamy underside of the social 
garment. Both book and press are, in their very format,