# Linotype Operators

**URL:** <https://www.twit.community/t/linotype-operators/10889>\
**Category:** Jeff Jarvis\
**Created:** [September 28, 2021, 6:28pm UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/linotype-operators/10889 "2021-09-28T18:28:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brickshy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/brickshy/32/1310_2.png) [@Brickshy](https://www.twit.community/u/Brickshy)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 6:28pm UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/linotype-operators/10889/1 "2021-09-28T18:28:16Z")

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Check out PBS American Experience “Citizen Hearst”. They talk about how Linotype operators were recruited from the deaf because of the noise these machines generated.