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Caving in to the whims of readers is how Journalism became the great institution it is today. Case in point: Long ago, newspaper articles were made up of words that were painstakingly glued onto a page, usually in long strips called "columns." Readers of newspapers, heralds and gazettes around America were forced to scan long blocks of text and process extensive reels of information and facts.
As American society progressed, people decided they hated this. Mounting complaints stated that discovering information about the world around them while using this method was, in fact, too cumbersome. Readers didn't have time to sit, read and process.
These readers began to stage riots. "No more text for information!" the protesters screamed. Reporters were shot dead in the streets and copy editors were forced, at gunpoint, to chop 35-inch stories about presidential elections into more accessible 7-inch breakout boxes. Statistically, the average American newspaper page made the transition from four stories per page to 16 stories, 27 breakout boxes, four multi-colored pie charts and at least one photo of a group of people holding a thing and smiling. Thanks to these reader-fueled advances, everyone from college professors to dyslexic five-year-olds can read and understand an American newspaper.
See? You, too, can make a difference.
If you have problems, praise, questions, blanket statements or male enhancement issues, feel free to get in touch with us.
Here's how:
1. Send an e-mail to flotsammedia - AT - gmail - DOT - com
2. Leave a comment on one of our posts
3. Check out our MySpace page. If you're a girl with a bikini and a camera phone, we know you've got one.
4. Send a telegram to Marv
5. Hire a skywriter
6. Facsimile
7. Papyrus in a bottle; send west on Platte River
Can't wait to hear from you.
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