Ghosts Of A Queens Press Room

Newspaper writing was better then than now, Jimmy Breslin tells Corey Kilgannon, because "the language has been hurt by the computer."

"It was a product of nervous energy back then," he said. "It came out of a city room with noise and typewriters and thick smoke all through the joint. It was horrible, terrible and unhealthy, and now they have computers that can do wondrous things and everybody sits at them and bores the world. There used to be newspaper bars where everyone hung out and talked. Now they go to health clubs."