Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1878 — Trials of Newspaper Men. [ARTICLE]

Trials of Newspaper Men.

One of the greatest trials of the newspaper profession is that its members see more of the shams of the world than any other profession. Through every newspaper office, day after day, go all the vanities that want to be puffed; all the revenges that want to be reaped; all the mistakes that want to be corrected; all the dull speakers that want to be thought eloquent; all the meanness that wants to get its wares noticed gratis in the editorial columns in order to save the tax of the advertising columns; all the men who want to be set right that never were right; all the crack-brained philosophers with stories as long as their hair; and all the bores who come to stay five minutes but talk hours. Through the editorial and reportorial rooms, all the follies and shams of the world are seen day after day, and the temptation is to believe in neither God, man, or woman. It is no surprise to me that in this profession there are some skeptical men. I only wonder that journalists believe anything.—De Witt Talmage.