The news industry is undergoing a massive disintermediation due to the ubiquitous low-cost communication made possible by the internet.

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The emergence of new, more efficient means of predation and foraging - 'terrors with teeth' with a through-gut (an early, small version of the 'tube' which Steve Jones reminds us we all are) connected to the anus, which could process what they ate with more efficiency than any previous animal.

’Tis not worth a single stiver, said the bandy-leg'd drummer.