A few newspaper readers can remember “ears” on the sides of a paper’s nameplate. One ear might summarize the weather forecast. The other across from The Daily Gossip could, in many newspapers, have a pithy news item, joke or wise saying. The writer, called a paragrapher, would use his or her skills to quickly wrap up a thought in a stylish way.
Nowadays newspaper nameplates usually have no ears. But that type of content is now, if one thinks about it, the kind of stuff found in 140 characters on Twitter.
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