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This story, besides highlighting Rain Man's buggutlust, shines a light on the versitality of the oft forgotten and maligned form of media - the newpaper. Although the newsprint media has suffered from the competition of television and the internet, it will never be vanquished. Would Rain Man have killed the first spider with his television set? I think not. Would he have dispatched the second with his keyboard? Again, unlikely. Would he ever take either of the newer medias to the bathroom for a twenty minute session and come back both relieved and possessing a finished crossword puzzle? I don't think so.
So, hail the newspaper! It may not be the fastest form of information transfer, but it's transportability, and adaptablity to secondary uses is unparalleled/
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What am I even doing here?
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