Lincoln was on & off the stage before they could even get a picture, but one reason his speech played well in the newspapers was that he understood the printing technology of 1863: it was short enough to print the whole thing on the front page.https://twitter.com/RBrookhiser/status/1192656818646003712 …
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Just as Tweeting can help discipline you as a writer to be concise, you could argue that Lincoln's writing got more crisp & to the point after 1862 once he got in the habit of composing for the telegraph.
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