But newspapers? They used to be great and powerful, authors of social change and political shift, but now? Gossip rags; Today's headlines, tomorrow's tramp blanket. ST
Always were and still are. They can be authors of social change still. Or a fish wrap. I do however find that trying to wrap my fish in my Driod phone is not a good idea.
When people had to scratch everything onto a sheet of vellum with a goose feather and ink made crushing oak-galls by hand- St
Hay, don't forget some used silk, and the ink of a squid, or took the lamp black and mixed it with some liquid carrier. Also in the middle east Papyrus was more popular.

Gildas- ST; he was no news reporter, he was book worm. Rupert Murdoch, now he is just a worm. smiley: happy



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