So if news is wherever the public finds it, what really is the value of creating a complicated, labor-intensive print product?
Relief printing is an inexpensive but labour-intensive printing technique; it was accessible to socially conscious artists who wanted to tell wordless stories of the working classes.
David Leonhardt, our Washington bureau chief and star analyst of everything to do with the economy, is involved in an intensive online and print examination of issues in this campaign, an effort called The Agenda.
Key requirements for market penetration include the need for the transit system to provide what could be termed "delighter" features, which would attract increased ridership away from existing congested, foot print intensive, polluting automotive modes of transport.
However, this task is still labor intensive in many printing factories.
After all, newspapers and magazines involve felling trees, energy-intensive pulping, transportation, printing and then delivering copies all over the country.
The program will offer three months of intensive, hands-on training in printing, hardware, laser-cutting, silk-screening and other trade work with a focus on job placement at the end.
Future work is needed to improve the size of PV and storage system to accommodate this more energy-intensive type of printing with comparable print volumes/times.
In his essay "First Steps Toward a History of Reading," Robert Darnton describes a switch from "intensive" to "extensive" reading that occurred as printed books began to proliferate.
MY PRINT column this week reports on intensive efforts underway within the Conservative Party to understand Britain's black and Asian electors better, and to learn why so few were willing to vote Tory at the last general election.
