★A clear allusion to the ubiquitous newspaper. SEM: newspaper. ★★However, for the modern citizen, what does a newspaper delivery truck signify to us? A dying medium, soon to become obsolete. Print dies more and more every day. In Baltimore, the Baltimore Sun has thinned down to simply the main section and sports section. Many citizens have cancelled their subscriptions and turned to new media as their news source. This ties interestingly to the notion of a "ComSat angel," because the news that we are fed from these angels used to be in the form of news print. Now, much of the news that is delivered to us is in the form of hypertext on the internet. We scour news sites such as Cnn.com and msnbc.com for our news, but mostly refuse to pick up an old-fashioned newspaper to acquire our news. Is this why the ComSat angels are angels? The news they deliver used to live on Earth, in the form of print, but now it is dead. It has moved on to its next life, and become an angel. Thus, the ComSat angel is born. SYM: print is dead- ComSats are angelic.
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