The newspaper is a highly specialized and collective art-form brought into existence by instantaneous telegraphic and radio abridgement of space. Nobody has yet written the story of how far telegraph and radio may have been fostered by the format and public of the newspapers.
“The Comics and Culture” (1952), in On the Nature of Media, 2016, p 29
Year: 1952
Chapter:
News
Compiled by William Kuhns
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