Subject: Re: Today's Technology or Tomorrow's? From: jvncnet!mcc.com!wilt (bill wilt) Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 05:25:00 +1154

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Ken Laws, this phrase 

> Perhaps
>we could revive the golden age of hick-town broadsheets?
>
(re: what it'd be like w/o news coops (AP), UPI, Reuters, etc.).

prompted a recollection:

was it "broadsides" and not broadsheets??  Single sheets, inexpensively
printed, "sniped" around town (stuck up with glue on vacant (or not so
vacant) walls. Like posters?

Wasn't that how the Childe Ballades (and Greenfleevef) got around?

(forgive me the '60s as I forgive them the '70s and '80s, Oh Omnipresent One.)

I do agree with you about local, local, local. And most papers have
sacrificed that over the years, because it's very seductive to chat/hobnob
with governors & federal solons. -- and ignore the fact that most
legislation, in the sense that it affects citizens' lives, takes place in
the administrative bowels of the executive branch, not on the floor of, or
halls of, even, Congress or state legislatures (or city halls, for that
matter).
   "Let there be clean air and pure water," saith the solons.
    OK, EPA, what's clean? .003 parts per gram molecular weight of stannous
flouride; plumbum (lead?);   No, I'm a flouride producer. No proof that 0.1
ppm isn't safe to mice & men. If you don't let me add that much to the
water, I'll tell my congressman, and your budget'll get cut, buddy."  All
that kind of stuff.
    So, local is where it's at. Administrative procedure is where it's at,
non-locally.

    Anyhow, back to doing my business plan for The New Mexico Interactive!
Digital DailyC, the nation's first all-digital newspaper, based on a
many-to-many paradigm (I'm your assignment editor, you're mine--and all the
way down the production line to published copy).  Know anyone with a
million bucks to back us?

  And amen, indeed, to our all being kids in this culture, never mind how
may decades we've put in using Windex to get the black smudges of ink from
around the light switches in our homes, 'cause we've come home (in the wee
hours) after having proofed, one last time, the street edition before we
left the newsroom--I was mostly on AM dailies. Fresh ink runs the most, I
found. But it sure did smell great--at least the letterpress ink; never did
much take to offset chemistry, at least in an olefactory way..

bill wilt

    
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