will discover is a story here about something that’s happening in Bonn at the moment, a story down in the lower right hand corner about how the crime rate on the East Side of New York City is increasing, a story in the upper right hand column about Governor Brown in California.
McLuhan: Inflation.
Forsdale: A story someplace else about inflation. The observation is being made that there once was a time in journalism, pre-telegram, when all this stuff would have been connected in long essays, and with the telegram coming in, with U.P., et cetera, it’s a paste-up job of stuff that has no connection.
