Synopsis
Excerpt from Views and Interviews on Journalism
During the last twenty years journalism has become prominent, if not pre-eminent, as a profession. The press is to-day the most potent agency for good or evil; and editors, far more than statesmen, are the guides of current opinion. Already a distinct branch of literature has been created, relating to newspapers. Nearly every leading writer of the past half century has formulated his opinions upon the influence of the press, while several bulky works have been written upon the history of newspapers, the most notable being those of Eugene Hatin, James Grant and Frederic Hudson, treating respectively of French, English and American journalism.
Many biographies of famous editors have also been written, among them lives of Daniel Defoe, William Cobbett, Douglass Jerrold, and Charles Dickens, the autobiography of Leigh Hunt, Parton's "Life of Horace Greeley," the "Recollections of a Busy Life," Pratt's "Bennett and his Times," Maverick's "Life of H. J. Raymond," the "Life of William Seaton," and the "Life of Gerald Hallock."
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