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I once met a retired journalist that worked for the Toronto Star who worked there in the 60s. He said at the height of his career they were working so much, so often on constant deadline in a huge system that required typewriters, hand writing, note writing and an army of people to get things onto printing presses for the daily news they literally worked round the clock every day. At one point he explained that he didn't even have time for coffee so he and a few of his co-workers would just eat whole coffee beans instead. After a year like that, he suffered a nervous breakdown, destroyed his gut, serious withdrawals and had to leave the city to work in a less stressful environment on Baffin Island in Inuit territory in far northern Canada.