journalism educator benjamin m. compaine seems downright prescient to day when we realize he wrote in that year of 1982 the technology the transformed the internal methods for producing the newspaper in the 1970 i.e.computers and video display terminals . was threatening to reach out to the world of consumer Systems were being put into place to create what might be called the electronic newspaper , videotext or data-base publishing Whatever the term. the promise was that the consumer would be able to get all or much of the content of the newspaper delivered via some electronic highway. telephone lines were one route . the cable that brought in video was another . Over the air ,via broadcasting was yet a third pathway