Our 'Inescapably impossible task'

This excerpt from A Crazy Creek Chronicle recounts the hero's first job and concludes with three basic rules of journalism that Musk and Zuckerberg can't and won't follow.

You took satisfaction in being published within days after writing, sometimes the very next day. A news junky, you’d always just accepted that the newspaper would arrive with breakfast, delivering what you’d wanted to know about the Watergate scandal, the war, the rise and fall of the Mets, about concerts and records and books. But you’d never given much thought to how it all got onto the page. Sure, you’d had a college class in which the professor would pretend to call in a report from a fire, and the students were supposed to organize the information into a who, what, when, where, why, and how “lede” sentence. But how did the words get from the reporter's fingertips and into the newspaper on your breakfast table?