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Nov 19, 2019

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How the Humble Coffee House Birthed Modern Media and Society

An extra chapter from ‘The Attention Merchants’ explains the connection between your morning coffee and your morning news

In this unpublished chapter from Tim Wu’s The Attention Merchants, Wu explains how the coffeehouse came to be not just a social hub, but the center of news…

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How the Humble Coffee House Birthed Modern Media and Society

An extra chapter from ‘The Attention Merchants’ explains the connection between your morning coffee and your morning news

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