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A Newsroom Buzzes in 1908

A Newsroom Buzzes in 1908

Reporters work in the telephone room of a British newspaper office in 1908. "A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier," wrote legendary newspaperman H. L. Mencken.

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Jan 01, 1908