Hold Your Head

“Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology — and, what’s more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.”  

—David Remnick, writer and editor, The New Yorker, 1996.

• Editorial Comment: What's that bump on your shoulders, paper boy?

 

 

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