But what if the newspaper was as new a medium as the Internet?
Show man behind the medium as the true man of action, etc. etc. Thoughtful but irreverent.
Akiko Tachiki, Ballettanz, 2008 "The air outside the body is the same medium as the breath inside it.
Mr. Johns, who is 78, is as dominant in his medium as the 90-year-old Mr. Penn.
In the 1968 book "World Ceramics," the editor, Robert J. Charleston, describes the medium as "the longest-lived handicraft of which we have continuous knowledge".
The first is a four-by-four-square puzzle that increases in difficulty from easy to medium as the week progresses.
Although that turned out to be manageable, each machine was different and not as universal a medium as the professors would have liked.
With the confluence of these projects, it seems Mr. Bromell could become an Alan Bennett type of figure seldom seen on these shores, an auteur who can slip easily from medium to medium as the project dictates.
Novelists and poets lead eventless lives too, but since they're working in the same medium as the person writing about them there is a compensating overlap between creation and commentary.
And it underscored the growing policy debate over whether federal officials and private groups can adequately police such a fast-growing and constantly changing new medium as the Net.
This is fatal for the maturing of any medium, as the fundamental need to tell a story, or to conjure a subtlety of mood, is trounced and swept aside by the sudden opportunity to show off.
