Column: Technology is grand, but content is still king Will Lange. Copyright (c) Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com. Modified: 5/25/2021 10:10:12 PM About 40 years ago — in April 1981, if memory serves; the late Marvin Midgette was the Valley News editorial page editor — when I began this weekly spasm, I still fancied that the only way I could compose an essay was the way I always had: on lined paper with pen and ink. So, after I had each week’s column done (I wrote then under a nom de plume), I typed it out and delivered it by hand to the newspaper office, where, I assume, another typist prepared it for editing and printing. This wasn’t quite the Dark Ages; my typewriter was a Smith Corona electric that snapped hungrily at each tap of my fingers, especially the mistakes.