SOUTHWESTERN NEWSPAPER
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On the banks of the river Garonne, on the right bank, on the Quai de Brazza, the newspaper in the South west newspaper occupies three levels. It is in the evening and the building, lit from the inside, offers its rotary to the public view. It is 22 p. m. and the newspaper visit begins. Visitors are pressing in the entrance. A film explains how a newspaper works with the collection, sorting and processing of information from both the Bordeaux headquarters and departmental editors, the pre-press with the layout of articles, selection of illustrations and the manufacture of advertisements. By groups, the visitors then travel to the printing machine to discover the paper storage (a huge hall where tens of rolls of several metres high are like giants in the holding of printing), the manufacture of plates and the operation of the rotating ones, monsters which are carrying ribbons of printed paper, long and flat, as well as national roads, before cutting them to do so. thousands of copies of the same newspaper. The visit ends two hours later by the shipping room and the surrender to each visitor of a South West copy. South West, whose motto is «The facts are sacred, the comments are free», is distributed on eight departments and three regions. Created in 1944 by Jacques Lemoîne, it is currently distributed to 300 000 copies.
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