We have had the didactic editor; he did his work and has
passed away. We are now having the editor who deals with facts--'cold
facts,' as Dickens would say--but, in his turn, he is only a part of
the general evolution. There is not an editor in this country, no
matter what his own views may be as to his own paper, who does not
know, and in his heart admit, that the ideal paper is yet to be
produced."
Excellent and even wonderful as the public press of to-day is, the
above is the opinion held by the great mass of men; and it is the
correct opinion. I mean what I say when I use the words "excellent and
wonderful" as applied to newspapers. To me the newspaper is a daily
astonishment. What we are all in search of is fresh and vital thought
and suggestion; and no one can acquire the _art_ of newspaper reading
without getting, each day, one or many new points of view on the world
and its great human currents.
Each one of our metropolitan papers is at enormous outlay to get
strong, capable men--young men with new minds and old men with wise
minds. It is simply out of the question for these men, working
together, to bring forth a product that does not have in it some
remarkable thing--some new point of view, some fact which your most
careful research has not disclosed to you.
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