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The great skill of traditional newspaper-making came out of its limitations. Space was rationed by pagination, in turn governed by advertising; lead type was inflexible; stories came out of typewriters one paragraph at a time so that they could be quickly divided among the operatives of Linotype machines. Writers wrote. Editors rejected or accepted. Sub-editors corrected, shortened and clarified. There were models to follow and customs to be learned.

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