By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
Bad manners make a journalist.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.
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