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...Great American City” that tracks the disaster’s human triumphs—and its institutional failures.Arriving on the scene last August, what he found was a scene of near-total devastation. As the levees around New Orleans failed, The Times-Picayune’s newsroom quickly flooded.“The water was not receding, but rising,” Horne says. “[We] piled everyone into the circulation trucks and just barely got out.”Horne rallied his news team in Baton Rouge, where they started printing on borrowed printing presses...
...electric typewriter. With its snap-in, snap-out ribbon enabling quickie corrections, it represented advanced technology for its day. It would serve me trustily from my first freshman Expos essay to the last page of my senior thesis. Compared to the battered old black Royal manuals in the Crimson newsroom that became my home, it was a writer?...
...Other things were, too. Along with the black Royals and the reams of yellow foolscap we’d feed them, The Crimson newsroom of my era had inherited a strong sense of progressive tradition; the campus’s Vietnam-era turmoil was only a couple of four-year cycles behind us. We carried an activist torch, marched for divestiture, and protested the Carter-era revival of draft registration...
...Like computers, the news itself was scarcer during our pre-CNN, pre-Web college years. The Crimson newsroom of our era was dominated by the AP machine, a chest-high teletype that pumped bulletins into our midst by stamping upper-case letters onto an endless, Kerouacian scroll. During the Iran hostage drama that dragged on for what seemed like half our time at Harvard, Jim Hershberg ’82 would hover over the machine through the night, awaiting some hopeful breakthrough or awful denouement. Occasionally the bell would ring to announce some report of special note—though...
...student newspaper, The Crimson is uniquely positioned to provide a venue for discussion of important social issues. United by a desire to publish truthful, insightful, and interesting stories, a group of students who are otherwise diverse can come together in discussion and argument, whether it be a casual newsroom discussion about global politics or a debate on the subjectivity of beauty in the course of choosing the Fifteen Hottest Freshmen. The more diverse the people who make up this organization, the better our discussions...