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and personal preference, and for whom all corporate media, not
only radio and the press but ordinary popular speech as well,
are debased forms of human expression and experience. Here I
must repeat that the newspaper, from its beginnings, has
tended, not to the book form, but to the mosaic or
participational form. With the speed-up of printing and news-
gathering, this mosaic form has become a dominant aspect of
human association; for the mosaic form means, not a
detached “point of view,” but participation in process. For that
reason, the press is inseparable from the democratic process,
but quite expendable from a literary or book point of view.
Again, the book-oriented man misunderstands the
collective mosaic form of the press when he complains about
its endless reports on the seamy underside of the social
garment. Both book and press are, in their very format,