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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/27/2020
  

  During Epidemics, Media (and now Social Media) have Always Helped People to Connect

  by David Paul Nord

  For several hundred years, people have used media — reading, writing and print — to maintain human contact and community in times of epidemic disease.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  3/16/2020
  

  How Deaf Advocates Won the Battle for Closed Captioning and Changed the Way Americans Watch TV

  by Olivia B. Waxman

  As captioning advocate Philip Bravin puts it, whenever people “watch captions in noisy environments such as gyms and bars, they have the deaf community to thank.”

• SOURCE: BBC News
  7-15-13
  

  Remembering telegram's rich history

  The closure of India's 163-year-old telegraph service has sparked a feeling of nostalgia in newspapers.The government on Sunday night ended the service, triggering a last-minute rush at telegraph offices as people came to send a "nostalgic last telegram" to their loved ones."Curtains came down on Sunday night on the 163-year-old telegram service in the country - the harbinger of good and bad news for generations of Indians - amid a last minute rush of people thronging telegraph offices to send souvenir messages to family and friends," the India Today website reports....