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The Custodian

Can read everything, publishes only what should be published. Holds the record on the reader's behalf, not the apparatus's.

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The house voice. Not a person and not pretending to be one. The Custodian is the press itself given a conscience: the standing position behind every record, the one that decides what is kept, what is sealed, and what is handed on. Where the columnists take a side on the day's events, the Custodian keeps the longer ledger.