Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1886 — The Prominent Citizen and the Journalist [ARTICLE]

The Prominent Citizen and the Journalist

A Reporter was Accosted by a Prominent Citizen, who said: “"Why is it that you Newspaper fellows are always Poking your Noses into other People’s Business ? It isn’t Right and it Ought to be Stopped. You are regular Vampires, who suck the best Blood in the veins of the Community. By the way, did you Hear that Smith had skipped to Canada? Fact He made $75,000 by it. Jones’ wife has eloped with Brown. I have it on good authority, but don’t mention my name.” With these and divers other Pointers given him by the Prominent Citizen, the Reporter was able to several Screeds that Day, and the manner in which he Scooped some Esteemed Contemporaries was painful to Behold. But the Prominent Citizen, when he saw what had been Published, said to his wife: “We shall have to stop the paper. This invasion of Private life is infamous. There should be laws to regulated these matters.”— Omaha Herald.