Telegraph

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Telegraph:

"When the telegraph came in then the one-to-one correspondence of democracy went out. The news used to travel by word of mouth. But with the telegraph the news could travel faster than the reaction: you could have the stimulus, but no response."

Citations

1. RBF to Hugh Kenner, Phila. PA, transcript p.10, 8 Jun'75