Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1881 — Did Not Understand Journalism. [ARTICLE]

Did Not Understand Journalism.

I recollect sitting at table in London beside the editor of a leading journal. He said: “I am in distress; I have lost one of my regular writers.” I did not know about journalism at the time, so I remarked : “I suppose you will have to get another.” He replied: “Get another! I will have to get three, and I will be surprised if at the end of a year one of these three writers does as well as the writer I have lost.”— Goldwin Smith.