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During the 1988 presidential race, the nation’s most plugged-in political reporters and operatives downloaded a 20-page digest of newspaper articles, spin, and campaign trail nuggets at 10 a.m. each day called the Hotline. The next issue didn’t arrive for another 24 hours, but this computer-delivered compendium raised eyebrows. ‘With Hotline,’ Newsweek warned at the time, ‘it is theoretically possible for reporters to cover the ‘88 campaign without leaving their computer terminals.’