Just a century ago our news structure was dramatically different than today: a world of pigeon posts, telegraphs, and air mail, methods of communication that are now just faded images only found in history books. Now every one of us is receiving a constant and immediate flood of news, photographs, stories and gossip from all over the world via Twitter, Facebook, Blogs and millions of RSS Feeds, at a rate and amount that would have been inconceivable only a decade ago.
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