stackyFACTSThe daily press traditionally involves chopping down trees to print massive sheets detailing everything awful that happened twenty-four hours ago. Your fingers turn black with ink while catching up on the gloom you missed while sleeping.
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The birth of American journalism was essentially a very rapid abortion. In 1690, a man named Benjamin Harris published 'Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and…
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Predicting the future is incredibly difficult for print media. The New York Times boldly published an article claiming flying machines would take a million…
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Massive newspaper formats only became standard practice because early publishers were heavily taxed strictly by page count. Making the actual paper absurdly…
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Sunday funnies were not drawn for artistic expression, but as a desperate tactic to radically boost daily circulation. Goofy cartoon cats were the original…
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Before glowing rectangles, everyone started their mornings staring at massive folded sheets of cheap paper covered in smudge-prone ink. Attempting to properly…
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Seeking genuine wisdom from a daily periodical was always a terrible idea. Early newspaper columnists frequently invented both the desperate letters and the…
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