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painter does his palette and tubes of pigment; from the endless
resources of available events, an endless variety of managed
mosaic effects can be attained. Any private client can be
ensconced in a wide range of different patterns and tones of
public affairs or human interest and depth items.
If we pay careful attention to the fact that the press is a
mosaic, participant kind or organization and a do-it-yourself
kind of world, we can see why it is so necessary to democratic
government. Throughout his study of the press in The Fourth
Branch of Government , Douglas Cater is baffled by the fact
that amidst the extreme fragmentation of government
departments and branches, the press somehow manages to
keep them in relation to each other and to the nation. He
emphasizes the paradox that the press is dedicated to the
process of cleansing by publicity, and yet that, in the electronic