Philip Meyer, author of The Vanishing Newspaper, in AJR:
“The town crier’s audience was limited to the number of people who could be assembled within the range of an unamplified human voice. Printing changed everything. It made the size of the audience theoretically limitless and, by the creation of multiple records, enabled more reliable preservation of [...]
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Newspapers: Vanishing faster than you think
September 29, 2008