This is Garrett Murray's Maniacal Rage

Call me a grumpy old codger, but I liked the old way [American newsrooms worked] better. For one thing, I used to have at least a rudimentary idea of how a newspaper got produced: On deadline, drunks with cigars wrote stories that were edited by constipated but knowledgeable people, then printed on paper by enormous machines operated by people with stupid hats and dirty faces.