has done most to create the mosaic image of the modern 
press, with its mass of discontinuous and unconnected 
features. It is this group-image of the communal life, rather 
than any editorial outlook or slanting, that constitutes the 
participant of this medium. To the book-man of detached 
private culture, this is the scandal of the press: its shameless 
involvement in the depths of human interest and sentiment. By 
eliminating time and space in news presentation, the telegraph 
dimmed the privacy of the book-form, and heightened, instead, 
the new public image in the press.

     The first harrowing experience for the press man visiting 
Moscow is the absence of telephone books. A further horrifying 
revelation is the absence of central switchboards in 
government departments. You know the number, or else. The 
student of media is happy to read a hundred volumes to