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of the author’s mental adventures, so the press page yields the
inside story of the community in action and interaction. It is for
this reason that the press seems to be performing its function
most when revealing the seamy side. Real news is bad news—
bad news about somebody, or bad news for somebody. In
1962, when Minneapolis had been for months without a
newspaper, the chief of police said: “Sure, I miss the news, but
so far as my job goes I hope the papers never come back. There
is less crime around without a newspaper to pass around the
ideas.”
Even before the telegraph speed-up, the newspaper of the
nineteenth century had moved a long way toward a mosaic
form. Rotary steam presses came into use decades before
electricity, but typesetting by hand remained more satisfactory
than any mechanical means until the development of linotype