Newspapers In This Country Are So
General That Men Cannot Well Live Without Them; But To Men And To
Women
Also in the United States they may be said to be the one chief
necessary of life; and yet in
The whole length and breadth of the
United States there is not published a single newspaper which seems
to me to be worthy of praise.
A really good newspaper - one excellent at all points - would indeed
be a triumph of honesty and of art. Not only is such a publication
much to be desired in America, but it is still to be desired in
Great Britain also. I used, in my younger days, to think of such a
newspaper as a possible publication, and in a certain degree to look
for it; now I expect it only in my dreams. It should be powerful
without tyranny, popular without triumph, political without party
passion, critical without personal feeling, right in its statements
and just in its judgments, but right and just without pride; it
should be all but omniscient, but not conscious of its omnipotence;
it should be moral, but never strait-laced; it should be well
assured but yet modest; though never humble, it should be free from
boastings. Above all these things it should be readable, and above
that again it should be true. I used to think that such a newspaper
might be produced, but I now sadly acknowledge to myself the fact
that humanity is not capable of any work so divine.
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