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Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, read more
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the
press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power read more
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the
press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and
muzzled the politicians.
Journalism is in fact history on the run.
Journalism is in fact history on the run.
Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost,
Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?
Torn, trampled read more
Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost,
Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?
Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost,
Star-eyed intelligence?
Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people;
for it is they who form a communication between the read more
Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people;
for it is they who form a communication between the learned and
the unlearned, and, as it were, throw a bridge between those two
great divisions of the public.
A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.
A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.
How shall I speak thee, or thy power address
Thou God of our idolatry, the Press.
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How shall I speak thee, or thy power address
Thou God of our idolatry, the Press.
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Like Eden's dead probationary tree,
Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.
They consume a considerable quantity of our paper manufacture,
employ our artisans in printing, and find business for great read more
They consume a considerable quantity of our paper manufacture,
employ our artisans in printing, and find business for great
numbers of indigent persons.