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The massive theme of the press can be managed only by
direct contact with the formal patterns of the medium in
question. It is thus necessary to state at once that “human
interest” is a technical term meaning that which happens when
multiple book pages or multiple information items are arranged
in a mosaic on one sheet. The book is a private confessional
form that provides a “point of view.” The press is a group
confessional form that provides communal participation. It can
“color” events by using them or by not using them at all. But it
is the daily communal exposure of multiple items in
juxtaposition that gives the press its complex dimension of
human interest.
The book form is not a communal mosaic or corporate
image but a private voice. One of the unexpected effects of TV
on the press has been a great increase in the popularity of Time