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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