Shipboard newspapers [fwd from H. Zenk]

[Liland Brajant Ros']

>From: Dave Robertson <tuktiwawa at netscape.net>
>Reply-To: tuktiwawa at netscape.net
>To: CHINOOK at listserv.linguistlist.org
>Subject: Shipboard newspapers [fwd from H. Zenk]
>Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 18:59:17 -0400
>
>[H. Zenk writes, and I forward because the list server didn't receive a
>copy separately:]
>
>From:    zenk at uswestmail.net
>
>I've never heard of shipboard newspapers.  What I have
>heard of, though, are shipboard logs, some of which may
>be preserved in archives, where they presumably still
>await evaluation by historians and ethnohistorians of
>early contact.  Henry

I boarded the SS President Wilson at San Francisco, bound for Yokohama, in
1967 at just about the same moment that the Six Day War broke out in the
Middle East, and was well aware both of the existence of shipboard
newspapers (or at least the one on the Pres. Wilson) and of their egregious
limitations. I mean, there was a war going on and it only received about
four or five lines of print at the top of the first page. It was a
mimeograph job. Anybody else remember the days of (a) transoceanic voyages
by ship, (b) no shipboard TV, and/or (c) mimeographs? Or ditto machines, for
that matter? ;-)

And the next summer, I was on the Trans-Siberian Railway a day or two east
of Moscow when Bobby Kennedy was killed. Now, there was a whole *country*
without a newspaper...

lilEnd

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