We all know how a newspaper is supposed to look. But today, newspapers are forgetting their proud traditions and letting electronic computers ruin their appearance, not to mention upsetting well-established newsroom and pressroom traditions.
Doing page makeup in a type case is an art, and it’s one readers appreciate. Every time they pick up their newspapers, they subliminally hear the “clunka–clunka” sound of a Linotype machine, the “thlick thlack thlick DING” of a reporter’s typewriter, and the combination of hums and clanks a two-story-high web press makes as it rolls a continuous stream of paper over the printing mats.
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