Re: Lowry Mays speaks

["Brian Vita" <brian_vita@cssinc.com>]

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From: "SteveOrdinetz" <steveord@bit-net.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: Lowry Mays speaks



> As far as "soul" missing, I hate to say it, but I heard a similar argument
> in the 70s when I was working for a company that made phototypesetting
> equipment.  As linotypes were being replaced with this new equipment I'd
> hear all these old-line newspaper composing room employees complain about
> how it's taken all the "pride" out of the job.  In the end the end user
> doesn't know or care how the paper was put out, just that it was.
>
>
I agree but, in your example, the change of typesetting did not change the
entertainment value of the newspaper (except, of course, when the (hand)type
setters would change something like "Stage Fort Park" to "Stage Fart Pork"
for chuckles).