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Arkansas Granny

(31,483 posts)
1. Do you know when this was printed?
Wed Jun 8, 2016, 10:53 AM
Jun 2016

I love science fiction and was first introduced by my older brother when I was about 8 or 9 years old. The first story I remember reading was "Arena" by Fredric Brown. Anyway, it delights me when I hear of a new "discovery" that I read about in years earlier in a SF novel.

progressoid

(49,824 posts)
7. Boy did they get that wrong.
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 07:56 AM
Jun 2016

I'm reading the news on my screen but I'm wearing my pajamas, not some stuffy suit!

Nay

(12,051 posts)
8. What's hilarious, of course, is the assumption that a newspaper would be
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 10:07 AM
Jun 2016

copied, unchanged, and put on the television screen. IOW, the form of "news delivery" would always be "newspaper." We've seen how wrong that is.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
9. The L.A. Times does precisely that
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 10:17 AM
Jun 2016

Subscribers receive the paper online exactly as it appears in print, section by section and page by page.

Nay

(12,051 posts)
10. Oh, yes, I do realize that some newspapers actually do that -- what I'm referring
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 12:10 PM
Jun 2016

to is that most actual news is not presented that way anymore, even by newspapers. News is on gobs of different types of websites that look like websites (not newspapers) with video clips, interactive links, etc.

Nay

(12,051 posts)
15. It sure isn't. Once it stopped being only in a newspaper, which theoretically had editors,
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 07:40 PM
Jun 2016

fact checkers, etc., it hit the TV and morphed into just another entertainment medium. And thus our predicament today!

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