I think we forget how immediate news media is today. Here is an edition of The Western Times – Monday 15 April 1912. The editorial feels quite eerie. Whilst Devonians were having breakfast reading their daily ration of news, meanwhile in the Atlantic the worse shipping disaster in history is taking place.
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