Bell Ringer

"Of course, as long as man lives someone will have to do the bell ringer's work. Someone will have to tell the story of the day's news and the year's happenings. A reporter is perennial under many names and will persist, I don't know. I seriously doubt it. I think most of the machinery now employed in printing the day's, the week's or the month's doings will be junked by the end of this century and will be as archaic as the bell ringer's bell, or the herald's trumpet. New methods of communication I think will supersede the old." - William Allen White, 1931 (86 years ago).