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by ARandomerDude 1299 days ago
Actually the fact that it took longer to publish and distribute the paper, but it still had to be in everyone’s driveway before work, produced a major time crunch for publishers.

In 1948, for example, the Chicago Tribune assumed Truman would lose the election and published it as fact on the front page in order to make their print deadline.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Defeats_Truman