Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Journalist, from which so many of our exchanges have been clipping, offers some very appropriate suggestions under the heading, "The pay of Newspaper Men." The circumstance that so many men are declaring journalism a profession in which the work is hard and disagreeable and the recompense is small, is the result of so many being in journalism who are wholly unfit for their positions. Some men, the writer thinks, can earn no more as a journalist than as a mender of roads. Thus ability and adaptability are as important here as in any of the other occupations. Able...
...life of a Chinese journalist is a happy one. He is free from care and thought, and allows all the work of the establishment to be done by the pressman. The Chinese compositor has not yet arrived. The Chinese editor, like the rest of his countrymen, is imitative. He does not depend upon his brain for editorials, but translates them from all the contemporaneous American papers he can get. There is no humorous department in the Chinese newspaper. The newspaper office has no exchanges scattered over the floor, and in nearly all other things it differs from the American establishment...
...average college journalist is seldom possessed of sufficient nerve to attack abuses which through long standing have become recognized as unassailable and beyond the student's reach. With the advent of warm weather we may expect to hear a few smothered imprecations over matters which, though to the freshman eye enormous evils, have become perfectly adapted to the Harvard condition of calm, admiring and independent indifference. It is needless to say that we refer, not to the pump, it is true, nor to that summer boarder, the mucker, who like the poor, is always with us, but to the "state...
Again, very few real journalists would be willing to teach journalism, and could not if they would. This profession differs from the medical and legal, in that a man who has mastered the elements of these latter is equipped for any district in the country, since physiology and the principles of common law are always the same. In journalism every locality demands different work. The requirements as well as the taste of the public must be understood and satisfied. The journalistic knowledge which would suit Boston; for example, would be altogether unsuitable for Minnesota. The two essential characteristics...
...this subject Mr. Godkin says, "The more a man knows of everything, and the better he can make deductions from what he knows, the better journalist he will be The art of journalism lies in the expression; the science of it may be said to include all sciences When we say this, we say enough to show the absurdity of establishing a special chair, or opening a special class of journalism in colleges...