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JOKE to JOURNALISM AND JOURNALISTS
JOKE
necessary. He who by a long familiarity
1 A joke's a very serious thing.
with infamy has obtained these qualities
[Charles Churchill: The Ghost IV]
may confidently tell today what he in-
tends to contradict tomorrow; he may
JOLLITY
affirm fearlessly what he knows he shall
2 Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with
be obliged to recant, and may write let-
thee
ters from Amsterdam or Dresden to him-
Jest, and youthful Jollity,
self. [Samuel Johnson: The Idler No.
Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles,
30]
Nods and Becks and wreathèd Smiles.
The first sentence echoes Sir Henry
[John Milton: L'Allegro]
Wotton's witticism that an ambassador
is a virtuous man sent to lie abroad for
JONAH
the good of his country.
3 And he [Jonah] said unto them [the
8 Scarcely anything awakens attention
mariners], take me up and cast me forth
like a tale of cruelty. The writer of news
into the sea; so shall the sea be calm
never fails to tell how the enemy mur-
unto you: for I know that for my sake
dered children and ravished virgins; and
this great tempest is upon you. [Jonah
if the scene of action be somewhat dis-
1:12]
tant, scalps half the inhabitants of a
It is from this incident that "a Jonah"
province. [Samuel Johnson: The Idler
has come to mean one who brings bad
No. 30]
luck, especially to a ship.
9 Condemn'd to drudge, the meanest
4 Now the Lord had prepared a great
of the mean,
fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was
And furbish falsehoods for a maga-
in the belly of the fish for three days
zine.
and three nights. [Jonah 1:17]
[Byron: English Bards and Scotch Re-
But in Matthew 12:40 Christ says the
viewers]
great fish was a whale.
10 The difference between literature
and journalism is that journalism is un-
JONSON, BEN
readable, and literature is not read. [Os-
5 Next these, learn'd Jonson, in this list
car Wilde: The Critic as Artist]
I bring,
11 Nameless men and women whose
Who had drunk deep of the Pierian
scandalously low payment is a guarantee
spring.
of their ignorance and their servility to
[Michael Drayton: Of Poets and Poesy]
the financial department. [G. B. Shaw:
6 0 rare Ben Jonson! [Epitaph on Ben
Common Sense about the War]
Jonson's tombstone in Westminster Ab-
12 Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to
bey]
discriminate between a bicycle accident
Aubrey (Brief Lives, "Ben Jonson") says
and the collapse of civilization. [G. B.
the inscription "was donne at the chardge
Shaw: Preface to Too True to be Good]
of Jack Young (afterwards knighted)
Many editors probably are able to so
who, walking there when the grave was
discriminate. But the demand of the
covering, gave the fellow eighteen pence
circulation department that every day
to cutt it."
supply equally exciting headlines and
The overknowing sometimes insist that
the fact that-with a few honorable ex-
the inscription is Orare Ben Jonson
ceptions-newspapers are run by their
("Pray for Ben Jonson").
circulation departments, not by their
editors, make any application of the
JOURNALISM AND JOURNALISTS
discrimination impossible. And it is to
7 A news-writer is a man without virtue
this as much as to any one other thing
who lies at home for his own profit. To
that we may attribute the utter con-
these compositions is required neither
fusion and puerility of the popular
genius nor knowledge, neither industry
mind.
nor sprightliness; but contempt of shame
13 Has any reader ever found perfect ac-
and indifference to truth are absolutely
curacy in the newspaper account of any
359
JOURNEY(S) to JOY
event of which he himself had inside
12 They hear a voice in every wind,
knowledge? [E V. Lucas: Of Accuracy]
And snatch a fearful joy.
1 The journalist is partly in the enter-
[Thomas Gray: On a Distant Prospect of
tainment business and partly in the ad-
Eton College]
vertising business. [Claud Cockburn: In
13 Excess of sorrow laughs; excess of joy
Time of Trouble]
weeps.
[William Blake: Proverbs of Hell]
JOURNEY(S)
14 As high as we have mounted in de-
2 O mistress mine! where are you roam-
light
ing?
In our dejection do we sink as low.
O! stay and hear; your true love's
[Wordsworth: Resolution and Independ-
coming,
ence]
That can sing both high and low.
15 Joy in widest commonalty spread.
Trip no further, pretty sweeting;
[Wordsworth: The Excursion]
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
16 And the stern joy which warriors feel
Every wise man's son doth know.
In foemen worthy of their steel.
[Shakespeare: Twelfth Night II.iii.]
[Sir Walter Scott: The Lady of the Lake,
3 Here is my journey's end, here is my
"Coronach"]
butt,
17 There's not a joy the world can give
And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.
like that it takes away,
[Shakespeare: Othello V.ii.]
When the glow of early thought de-
4 One of the pleasantest things in the
clines in feeling's dull decay;
world is going a journey; but I like to go
"Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the
by myself. [William Hazlitt: On Going
blush alone, which fades so fast,
a Journey]
But the tender bloom of heart is
gone, ere youth itself be past.
JOY
[Byron: Stanzas for Music]
5 When the morning stars sang to-
18 On with the dancel let joy be uncon-
gether, and all the sons of God shouted
fined;
for joy. [Job 38:7]
No sleep till morn, when Youth and
6 Weeping may endure for a night, but
Pleasure meet
joy cometh in the morning. [Psalms
To chase the glowing Hours with fly-
30:5]
ing feet.
7 For ever the latter end of joy is woe.
[Byron: Childe Harold III.xxii.]
God wot that worldly joy is soon ago.
19 Our sincerest laughter
[Chaucer: The Nun's Priest's Tale]
With some pain is fraught.
8 The most evident token and appar-
[Shelley: To a Skylark]
ent sign of true wisdom is a constant and
20 Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips,
unconstrained rejoicing. [Montaigne:
Bidding adieu.
Essays I.xxv.]
[Keats: Ode on Melancholy III]
The translation is Florio's. apparent=
21 How terrible is man's estate. There is
visible, clear, not-as it most commonly
not one of his joys which does not spring
does today-opposed to reality.
out of some form of ignorance. [Honoré
9 I speak of Africa and golden joys.
de Balzac: Eugénie Grandet I]
[Shakespeare: II Henry IV V.iii.]
22 The year's at the spring
10 With one auspicious and one drop-
And day's at the morn;
ping eye,
Morning's at seven;
With mirth in funeral and with dirge
The hillside's dew-pearled;
in marriage,
The lark's on the wing;
In equal scale weighing delight and
The snail's on the thorn:
dole.
God's in his heaven—
[Shakespeare: Hamlet I.ii.]
All's right with the world.
11 What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by?
[Robert Browning: Pippa Passes I]
[Shakespeare: The Two Gentlemen of
23 He chortled in his joy.
Verona III.i.]
[Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking-
360
180
ISOLATION-JOURNALISM
ISOLATION
3192 The word isolation means short pants for a grown-up United States.
Henry A. Wallace
ITALY
3193 A man who has not been to Italy is always conscious of his in-
feriority. Samuel Johnson
3194 Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways-women, gambling
and farming. My family chose the slowest one. Pope John XXIII
IVY
3195 The creeping, dirty, courtly ivy. Alexander Pope
JADE
3196 Jade: a semiprecious stone or a semiprecious woman. Oliver
Herford
JAYWALKER
3197 A jay is a bird of the crow family, which can be found in fields
and meadows. A jaywalker, on the other hand, is a bird of the
Schmoe family who can be found in traffic jams and morgues.
Phyllis Battelle
JAZZ
3198 Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet
instead of their brains. John Philip Sousa
JEALOUSY
3199 Plain women are always jealous of their husbands, beautiful women
never are; they have no time, they are always occupied in being
jealous of other people's husbands. Oscar Wilde
3200 Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees
it first. Job E. Hedges
JEWELRY
3201 The first thing to turn green in the spring is Christmas jewelry.
Frank McKinney Hubbard
3202 Orators of love. Samuel Daniel
JOKE
3203 If you think before you speak, the other fellow gets in his joke first.
Edgar W. Howe
3204 It is only the dull who like practical jokes. Oscar Wilde
JOURNALISM
3205 The press is not our daily bread but our daily sugar pill. T. S.
Matthews
3206 Journalism is organized gossip. Edward Eggleston
3207 Modern journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian
principle of the survival of the vulgarest. Oscar Wilde
ISOLATION-JOURNALISM
JOURNALISM
181
ISOLATION
3208 In America, the President reigns for four years, and journalism
pants for a grown-up United States.
governs for ever and ever. Ibid.
3209 The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism
ITALY
is unreadable, and literature is not read. That is all! Ibid.
Italy is always conscious of his in-
3210 There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving
us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the
ally in three ways-women, gambling
ignorance of the community. Ibid.
the slowest one. Pope John XXIII
3211 You cannot hope to bribe or twist,
IVY
Thank God! the British journalist.
Alexander Pope
But, seeing what the man will do
Unbribed, there's no occasion to. Humbert Wolfe
3212 Any man with ambition, integrity-and $10,000,000-can start a
daily newspaper. Henry Morgan
JADE
3213 The lawyers make th' law, th' judges make th' errors, but th' iditors
or a semiprecious woman. Oliver
make th' juries. Finley Peter Dunne
3214 Th' printed wurrud! What can I do against it? I can buy a gun to
JAYWALKER
protect me against me inimy. I can change me name to save me
amily, which can be found in fields
fr'm the gran' jury. But there's no escape f'r good man or bad fr'm
n the other hand, is a bird of the
th' printed wurrud. Ibid.
found in traffic jams and morgues.
3215 Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and
selling it at ten cents a pound. Charles A. Dana
JAZZ
3216 Journalism has two patron saints: Ananias and Nell Gwyn. Anon-
as people hear it through their feet
ymous
Philip Sousa
3217 Journalism is literature in a hurry. Matthew Arnold
JEALOUSY
3218 Journalism: a profession whose business it is to explain to others
S of their husbands, beautiful women
what it personally does not understand. Lord Northcliffe
they are always occupied in being
3219 It is part of the social mission of every great newspaper to provide
nds. Oscar Wilde
a refuge and a home for the largest possible number of salaried
ing the minute the other fellow sees
eccentrics. Roy Thompson
3220 Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people
JEWELRY
who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. G. K. Chesterton
in the spring is Christmas jewelry.
3221 People are always dying in The [New York] Times who don't seem
to die in other papers, and they die at greater length and maybe even
with a little more grace. James Reston
JOKE
3222 Like officials in Washington, we suffer from Afghanistanism. If it's
the other fellow gets in his joke first.
far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology. Ibid.
3223 In America, journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of
ctical jokes. Oscar Wilde
history; in Britain, as an extension of conversation. Anthony
JOURNALISM
Sampson
cad but our daily sugar pill. T. S.
3224 The trouble with daily journalism is that you get so involved with
"Who hit John?" that you never really know why John had his chin
Edward Eggleston
out in the first place. Chalmers Roberts
own existence by the great Darwinian
3225 Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think,
vulgarest. Oscar Wilde
not what you think. Arthur Brisbane
182
JOURNALIST-JURY
3226 The editorial "we" has often been fatal to rising genius; though all
the world knows that it is only a form of speech, very often em-
ployed by a single needy blockhead. Thomas Babington Macaulay
JOURNALIST
3227 What is everybody's business is nobody's business-except the
journalist's. Joseph Pulitzer
3228 Bad manners make a journalist. Oscar Wilde
JOY
3229 My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it. Charles
Lamb
JUDGE
3230 I shall no more mind you than a hungry judge does a cause after
the clock has struck one. William Wycherley
3231 A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
H. L. Mencken
3232 Judges are apt to be naïve, simpleminded men. Oliver Wendell
Holmes
JUDGMENT
3233 It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is
judging you with the same God-like and superior impartiality.
Arnold Bennett
3234 The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time
he uses it. Edgar W. Howe
JULY FOURTH
3235 Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other
days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in
stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the
country has grown so. Mark Twain
3236 That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both
orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges. John Burroughs
JURY
3237 The efficiency of our criminal jury system is only marred by the
difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything
and can't read. Mark Twain
3238 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the
better lawyer. Robert Frost
3239 America is a country where they lock up juries and let the defendants
out. Anonymous
3240 A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the
panel than to hang the traitor. Abraham Lincoln
3241 The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine. Alexander Pope
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
16-Mar-1992 11:44am
TO:
Daniel B. McGroarty
FROM:
Jean M. Bunton
Office of Communications
SUBJECT: National Newspapers Association
Here's what we know:
Per Joanne Buckley, NNA Dir. of Member Services
202-466-7200
AUDIENCE PROFILE:
325' in audience: publishers and spouses [some spouses are men,
meaning the wife is the publisher]
They are publishers/editors of out of town media from across the
country with no Washington offices, correspondents, etc. some are
AP and UPI subscribers
membership ranges from newspapers with circulation over 800,000
daily to 100 weekly
total membership about 5000 newspapers, of which 700 are dailies,
balance is weeklies [defined as publishing less than 5 times per
week.]
average member is a weekly publication
ISSUES: Baby Bells and Postal Rates
big issues for papers right now are the Baby Bells - will they get
into electronic media; and postal rates, concerned about how
rising costs will impact their second class bulk mailing permit,
[Uncle Sam a la the U.S. Postal Carrier is today's paper boy]
Desktop Publishing, electronic publishing has transformed the
industry - made paste-up and the typesetter obsolete. Scanning
photos, giving capabiliites to do a range of tasks from word
prosessing to pageination, language to layout. Accounting to ad
layout. Ciruclation records to copy editing. Subscription to
screens. All on one system. Desktop Publishing is taking the
industry by storm.
Weeklies have less bureaucracy - the people in the audience are
the company decision makers, they have their own columns, these
are the people who will say to their readers - I saw the
President, this is what he said.
They wear a lot of hats - at the paper and in the community. Some
are husband and wife teams -- he publishes; she edits.
Hometown community papers are clearing houses of information --
they cover everything from county council to church dinner on the
grounds. They are in constant touch with their audience, they know
the pulse beat. Some publishers are actually mayors of their
towns, sit on town council, members of Rotary. Some have gone on
to Congress. This is John Boy Walton Journalism at its finest.
It is important to remember that these men and women are small
business people -- the growth of the community is linked to the
growth of the newspaper. And vice versa. If a business in town
goes under, a source af advertising revenue dies.
About 50 newspapers [formerly NNA members] have gone out of
business, a portion of the that was start-up, just a rough number.
By and large they are community fixtures averaging 15-20 years or
longer in the community. Most publishers are over 55 or 60+ years
old.
NNA is the oldest, largest newspaper assocation in the U.S. [1885]
The current president, Charlotte Schexnayder, publisher of the
Dumas Clarion, Arkansas, is the first woman president. She is in
her fourth term in the Arkansas State Legislature, was told she's
a Democrat who voted for POTUS [she will introduce POTUS].
80-85 percent of audience Republican supporters.
The President briefed the group in 1990 and 91. Dropped by for
two of President Reagan's briefings. Eisenhower, Nixon and Cartr
have addressed the group.
Editorial opinion: this is grass roots. Doesn't get much
grassier. This is instant access to middle-class America. Talk
about reach and impact.
03:16:92
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NNA Since 1885
NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION
March 17, 1992
TO: Mia Kelly
Office of Media Liaison
The White House
FROM:
Joann Buckley
RE: Program & bio
Here are the pages of our 1992 conference program. You'll note it
includes Ambassadors, members of Congress and the Cabinet and
Washington "insiders."
Call me if this or NNA President Charlotte Schexnayder's
biography raise other questions.
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Attachments (b)
1627 K St, NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20006-1790
(202) 466-7200
FAX (202) 331-1403
President
Vice President
Treasurer
Executive Vice President
Charlotte T. Schexnayder
Frank W. Garred
Sam M. Griffin, Jr.
David C. Simonson
The Dumas Clarion
The Port Townsend Jefferson County Leader
The Post-Searchlight
National Newspaper Association
P.O. Box 220
226 Adams St
P.O. Box 277
1627 K St, NW, Suite 400
Dumas. AR 71639
Port Townsend, WA 98368
Bainbridge, GA 31717
Washington, DC 20006-1790
This
is
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Wednesday
Thursday
March 18
March 19
3:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
South American
7:00 am. - 5:00 p.m.
Capital Terrace
Legislative & Postal Update
NNA Conference Registration
Focus on NNA's government relations efforts on behalf of
community newspapers.
7:30 am. as 8:30 a.m.
Congressional Senate.
NNA Congressional Coffee
4:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
U.S. Department of State
Briefing sheets are in registration packets and are available at
State Department Briefing
NNA's registration desk. Look for your state sign on tables.
Buses shuttle from the Hilton's 16th Street entrance to the State
GAC and Government Relations Committee members will
Department (2201 C St, NW) beginning at 4:45 p.m. Buses
escort your members of Congress to state signs.
continue shuttling 7:30-8:30 pm, back to the Hilton.
8:30 am. 10:40 am
Presidential Ballroom
Richard A. Boucher
NNA General Session
Deputy Spokesman of the
Presiding: NNA GAC Committee Chair
Joel Smith, Fufaula (AL) Tribune
Department of State
U.S. Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT)
Introduced by NNA Vice President Frank
Assignments:
W. Garred, The Port Townsend (WA)
Labor and Human Resources Committee
Jefferson County Leader
Judiciary Committee
Committee on Finance
Governing Board of the Office of Technology
Boucher
Assessment
5:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m.
U.S. Department of State
Delegate, International Labor Organization
Senate Caucus on Tourism
NNA Welcome Reception
Diplomatic Floor
Senate Caucus on Terrorism
Caucus on Steel, Caucus on Copper
Hatch
Lawrence S. Eagleburger
Introduced by NNA Region Ten Director Sue Dutson, Millard
Deputy Secretary of State
County Chronicle, Delta, UT
Introduced by NNA Region Four Director
U.S. Senator Harris Wofford (D-PA)
Sam Griffin, The Post-Searchlight,
Assignments:
Bainbridge, GA
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Environment and Public Works Committee
Tickets required.
Small Business Committee
Eagleburger
Introduced by NNA Region Two Director
Joseph F. Biddle, II, The Daily News,
Huntingdon, PA
Wofford
4
U.S. Senator Howell Heflin
(D-AL)
Assignments:
Chairman, Select Committee on Ethics
Committee in the Judiciary
Chairman, Subcommittee on Courts and
Administrative Practice
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry
Heflin
Chairman, Subcommittee on Rural
Development and Rural Electrification
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Friday
Friday
March 20
March 20
7:30 am - 2:30 p.m.
Capital Terrace
9:00 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
Presidential Ballroom
NNA Conference Registration
NNA General Session
7:30 a.m. . 9:00 a.m.
Massachusetts
Edward J. Derwinski
NNA Study Mission Committee
U.S. Secretary of
George Bleezarde, Ravena (NY) News-Herald, presiding.
Veteran Affairs
7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
South American A
NNA Postal Committee
Introduced by Bob Best, Best Newspapers,
Max Heath, Landmark Community Newspapers, Shelbyville,
Sullivan, IL
KY, presiding.
8:00 am - 9:00 a.m.
Senate
Derwinski
Publishers' Auxiliary Committee
Lynn Martin
Cone Magie, Cabot (AR) Star-Herald, presiding.
U.S. Secretary of Labor
9.00 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
Presidential Ballroom
NNA General Session
Introduced by NNA Region Five Director
Presiding:
William E. Shaw, Dixon (IL) Telegraph
NNA President Charlotte T. Schexnayder
Dumas (AR) Clarion
Presentation of the Travelers Insurance dividend
Martin
Jerrell Fort
Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
Account Executive
United States Navy
Lamar Alexander
Introduced by Ann Smith, Eufaula (AL)
Tribune
U.S. Secretary of Education
Introduced by Bob Atkins,
News-Examiner, Galiatin, TN
Moorer
Alexander
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Friday
Friday
March 20
March 20
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Congressional Senate
FRG in Paris (1987-1990), and as Head of Parliament and Cabinet
Luncheon with Jeane Kirkpatrick
Division for the Foreign Office, Bonn (1985-87). He served as Ambassa-
dor of the FRG in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (1982-1985).
Presiding:
Embassy of the State of Kuwait, 2940 Tilden St, NW
NNA President Chariotte T. Schexnayder, Dumas (AR) Clarion
Ambassador Shaikh Saud Nasir Al-Sabah has held his current position
since 1981, and concurrently has held the position of non-resident
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Ambassador to Canada and Venezuela. He was previously Ambassador
Leavey Professor at Georgetown
to the Court of St. James, Great Britain, and President of the Inter-
University, Senior Fellow at the American
Maritime Consultative Organization General Assembly Session.
Enterprise Institute, and author of a
Embassy of Lithuania, 2622 Sixteenth St., NW
syndicated column on world affairs
Diane Vidutis
Embassy of Mexico, Cultural Institute, 2829 16th St., NW
Invitation to NNA's 1992 Convention
Ambassador Gustava Petricioli, Ambassador of Mexico to the U.S.
"San Diego 'n You in '921"
since 1989, previously served as Director of Nacional Financiera, Mexico's
NNA Convention Committee Chairman
development bank During that time he also served as chairman on the
David Asper Johnson, The Argonaut,
Kirkpatrick
board of Industrial concerns as well as President of the National Banks
Association. He is a former Director General of Multicanco Comermex,
Marina del Rey. CA
former General Coordinator of the Mexican Banking System, and former
Tickets required.
Undersecretary of the Treasury.
Pollsh Embassy. 2640 Sixteenth St., NW
2:10 3:10 p.m.
South American
Ambassador Kavimierz Dziewanowski
NNA Journalism Education
Embassy of Spain, 2700 Fifteenth St., NW
Committee and journalism educators
Ambassador Jaime DeOjeda was appointed in April, 1990. Since 1983
he served as Ambessador Permanent Representative to NATO, and
Greg Temple, Brown County Democrat, Nashville, IN, presiding.
previously served as Minister Counsellor at the Spanish Delegation on
NATO. In 1980 he was appointed Director of Political Organizations of
2:10 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.
Senate
Westem Europe, becoming Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western
Improving Delivery
Europe in 1981.
Postal panel focuses on problem solving. Moderator Max
Organization of American States, 17th St. & Constitution Ave.
Heath, Landmark Community Newspapers, Shelbyville, KY, is
Secretary General Joso Clements Baena Soares was elected Secre-
joined by Don Tomaselli, USPS general manager for distribu-
tary General of OAS for a five year term in 1984. He was reelected to a
second five year term in 1989. Prior to that, he was Secretary General of
tion, network division and Pat Dempsey, USPS general
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil. Ambassador Baena Soares was
manager for analysis, requirements division.
Secretary in his country's embassies in Asuncion, Lisbon, Guatemala City
and Brussels.
3:40 p.m. 6:00 p.m.
Embassy Briefings
Tickets required.
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Schexnayder Proof
of Own Advice:
Work Hard, Persist
- by -
said. "Technology has so vastly im-
Angie Mote
proved, along with opportmities for
women."
The 1992 National Newspaper
Schexnayder is now living proof
Association president has seen the
of her advice for "hard work and
industry evolve from linotype to
persistence."
laser printing.
Most of her goals as NNA presi-
In a breakfast meeting yesterday,
dent will surface during a retreat in
Charlotte Schexnayder, publisher
Nashville, Tenn., November 1-3.
and editor of southeast Arkansas'
However, she has outlined a few al-
weekly Dumas Clarion, officially
ready.
became the 1992 NNA president.
"I hope to give consistently good
In addition, she is the first NNA
service to the members. More spe-
president from Arkansas since 1928
cifically, 1 would like to increase
and the fust woman president in his-
awareness of the NNA, create 2
tory. When she joined the Aricansas
Technical Advisory Commission
Press Association in 1945, there
and enhance training and educa-
were only two women editors.
tional opportunities and seminars,"
"Being the first woman president
she explained.
is overwhelming. There are women
far more capable than me. I am the
result of a lot of years of hard
work," Schexuayder said,
demonstrating her humility.
She followed her family into the
industry. Her great-grandparents
published the White River Jour-
nal, a weekly in Valls Bluff,
Ark; her grandmother wrote a
novel: and her mother taught
English and journalism at Tillar
(Arkanses) High School
During her college days at
Arkanses A&M in Monticello, she
was the editor and publisher of the
campus paper. Shortly thereafter,
she began writing for two weeklies,
the McGehee Times and the
Advance Monticellonian.
Schexnayder
Her senior year. she transferred to
Louisiana State University where
she met her fullut husband, Melvin
Schexnayder. a chemical engineer-
This week of the 1991 NNA con-
ing student.
vention has been "old home week"
In 1948 she convinced him that a
for Schexnayder. And a busy week,
country newspaper would be more
at that.
exciting than a chemistry lab. The
"You're sitting down! Take a pic-
couple then moved back to
time of that," passers-by commented
McGehee where Charlotte became
during a brief interview yesterday.
Focus, and You'll
editor and Melvin became advertis-
The tired, but always amicable,
ing manager.
Schexnayder, rose to her feet to
However, they always dreamed of
shake hands and give hugs to old
buying their own weekly. In 1954
friends.
Find Money Where
they learned of the availability of
It seemed as if everyone in the vi-
the Dumas Clarion.
cinity wanted to say "hello" and
And due to their outstanding
"congramiations.".
reputation, 12 Dumas merchants of-
"I am looking forward to meeting
There "Ain't" None
fered to help them buy the Clarion.
new people and making new friends
Two years later, Charlotte and Mel
during my tenure," she added.
were able to buy out the others.
With her genuine charm and hos-
"So many aspects of the industry
pitality. that should be the easiest
by
college to conduct an advertiser sur-
have changed over the years," she
goal of all
DeAnn Smith
vey for the newspaper.
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CHARLOTTE TILLAR SCHEXNAYDER
FAMILY: Born December 25, 1923 in Tillar, Arkansas, the daughter
of 1946 to Melvin John Schexnayder; children: Melvin John, Jr., of Austin, Texas
Jewell and Bertha Tillar, pioneer settlers; married August 18,
Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Sarah Schexnayder Holden of Shreveport,
Louisiana; Stephen Schexnayder of the University of Arkansas Medical School
Faycituville; two grandsons.
CAREER: Worked on THE ADVANCE MONTICELLONIAN while a student at
Arkansas A&M College (now the University of Arkansas at
Monticello) beginning in 1940 and has worked on newspapers and in
the communications field since then. Served as editor of THE
MCGEHEE (AR) TIMES, 1944-46; graduate student at Louisiana State
University and member of the journalism staff, 1947; editor of
THE MCGEHEE TIMES, 1948-54; and editor and co-publisher of THE
DUMAS (AR) CLARION, 1954 to date. Also served as a feature
writer and photographer for the Louisiana Extension Service in
1943.
EDUCATION: Graduate of Tillar High School; studied at Arkansas
A&M College (now University of Arkansas at Monticello); the
University of Chicago; and received a Bachelor of Arts degree
from Louisiana State University in 1944. Also completed one year
of postgraduate work in history and journalism at LSU.
JOURNALISM POSITIONS HELD: President, Arkansas Press Women,
1955; 20 years service on the Dean's Advisory Committee for the
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville; president, Little Rock
Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (only woman to
hold this position), Sigma Delta Chi, 1973-74; delegate to First
Amendment Congresses in Philadelphia and Williamsburg; president,
National Federation of Press Women, 1977-79; president, Arkansas
Press Association (only woman to hold this position), 1981-82;
and Board of Directors, National Newspaper Association (only
woman to hold this position), 1982 to present. Also served on
various National Newspaper Association committees.
STATE ACTIVITIES: Founding member, Arkansas Endowment for the
Humanities; member of the Governor's Commission on the Status of
Women (during Governor Bumpers' administration); chosen
"Outstanding Arkansan" for the State Chamber of Commerce, 1970;
chosen "Outstanding Editor" by the State Council of Extension
Homemakers; first woman to serve on the Arkansas Board of Pardons
and Parole, board secretary, 1975-1980; and Board of Directors,
Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, 1982-1985.
OTHER HONORS: Chosen Dumas, Arkansas "Woman of the Year", 1956;
distinguished alumnus, Arkansas A&M College, 1970; National
Federation of Press Women "National Woman of Achievement", 1970;
Freedoms Foundation's George Washington Honor Medal for published
article, 1973; and chosen "Arkansas Journalist of the Year" by
the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 1979. Also received
distinguished service award from the Arkansas Press Association
and winner of more than 300 state and national contest awards.
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POLITICAL POSITIONS: Representative-Elect, District 85, Arkansas
State Legislature, 1985-87.
CIVIC WORK IN DUMAS: Past president, Dumas Chamber of Commerce
(first woman to hold this position), 1983; vice president, Desha
County Museum Society: festival chairman of Dumas "Ding Dong
Days" for five years; president, Dumas Cultural Commission; past
member of the Library and Parks Boards; and served on Chamber of
Commerce Board for five years.
LISTED IN: Who's Who of American Women and Who's Who in the
World (nominee for 1985).
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
November 22, 1991
SCHEDULE PROPOSAL
TO:
KATHY SUPER
Deputy Assistant to the President
for Appointments and Scheduling
THROUGH:
DORRANCE SMITH
88
Assistant to the President
for Media Affairs
FROM:
MARIA EITEL SHEEHAN
MA
Deputy Director
Office of Media Affairs
REQUEST:
A drop-by briefing for the National Newspaper
Association
PURPOSE:
To give brief remarks to 400 community newspaper
publishers and editors and their spouses at the
National Newspaper Association (NNA) Government
Affairs Conference.
BACKGROUND:
The National Newspaper Association represents over
5,000 community newspapers nationwide. This is
the NNA's 31st Annual Government Affairs
Conference.
This media availability will provide the President
with an excellent opportunity to communicate his
domestic and economic message to an influential
group of regional, specialty, and trade media.
President Bush has briefed the group twice, in
1990 and 1991, and as Vice President, he dropped
in on two of President Reagan's briefings for the
group. Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon; and Carter
have also briefed the NNA.
DATE AND TIME: Afternoon of Thursday, March 19, 1992
LOCATION:
The Capital Hilton, Washington, D.C.
PARTICIPANTS: The President
Dorrance Smith
Maria Eitel Sheehan
400 NNA Delegates
MEDIA COVERAGE: Open Photo/Writing Pool
Specialty press from NNA members
1600
PRESENT, THE
PRESS, THE
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We're curus critters: Now ain't jes' the
The future works out great men's purposes;
minute
The present is enough for common souls,
Thet ever fits us easy while we're in it;
Who never looking forward. are indeed
Long ez twus futur'. twould be perfect bliss—
Mere clay, wherein the footprints of their age
Soon ez it's past. thet time's wuth ten o' this;
Are petrified forever.
An' yit there ain't a man thet need be told
J. R. LOWELL, A Glance Behind the Curtain.
Thet Now's the only bird lays eggs o' gold.
St. 6.
J. R. LOWELL, Biglow Papers. Ser. ii, No. 6.
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2
Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go,
"Now" is the watchword of the wise.
Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!
C. H. SPURGEON, Salt-Cellars.
OMAR KHAYYÁM, Rubáiyát. (Fitzgerald, tr.)
3
13
Out of the moment Now
If people take no care for the future, they
Rises the god To-Be,
will soon have to sorrow for the present.
The light upon his brow
W. G. BENHAM, Proverbs, p. 789. Chinese.
Is from eternity.
14
J. H. WHEELOCK, To the Modern Man.
And the future is dark, and the present is
4
spread
In what alone is ours. the living Now.
Like a pillow of thorns for thy slumberless
WORDSWORTH, Memorials of a Tour in Italy.
head.
No. 10.
SHELLEY, Prometheus Unbound. Act i, 1. 562.
15
III-Present and Future
Oh, the dulness and hardness of the human
See also Today and Tomorrow
heart, which thinketh only of present things
5
and provideth not more for things to come.
The present interests me more than the past
(0 hebetudo et duritia cordis humani, quod
and the future more than the present.
solum præsentia mediatur, et futura non magis
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Lothair. Ch. 24.
prævidet!)
6
THOMAS À KEMPIS, De Imitatione Christi. Bk.
Present joys are more to flesh and blood
i, ch. 23, sec. 3.
Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
16
DRYDEN, The Hind and Panther. Pt. iii, 1. 364.
Such is; what is to be?
7
The pulp SO bitter. how shall taste the rind?
Those who live to the future must always
FRANCIS THOMPSON, The Hound of Heaven.
appear selfish to those who live to the present.
EMERSON, Essays, Second Series: Character.
8
PRESS, THE
In the moment of our talking envious time
has ebbed away.
I-Press: Apothegms
17
Seize the present; trust to-morrow e'en as
Harmony seldom makes a headline.
little as you may.
SILAS BENT, Strange Bedfellows, p. 179.
(Dum loquimur, fugerit invida
18
Atas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula
"Twelve Spadissins" were seen, by the yellow
postero.)
eye of Journalism, "arriving recently out of
HORACE, Odes. Bk. i, ode 11. (Conington, tr.)
Switzerland."
Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
CARLYLE, The French Revolution. Pt. ii, bk. 3,
ch. 3.
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act,-act in the living Present !
This "Present" book, indeed, is blue, but the
Heart within, and God o'erhead!
hue of its thought is yellow.
LONGFELLOW, A Psalm of Life.
H. D. THOREAU, Familiar Letters.
9
Let the soul be joyful in the present, disdain-
It is time for scientists, alienists, and psychologi-
ing anxiety for the future, and tempering
cal investigators to make a careful study of the
Yellow literary atmosphere.
bitter things with a serene smile. (Lætus in
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER, The Yellows in
præsens animus quod ultra est Oderit curare
Literature. (Harper's Magazine, XC, 481.)
at amara lento Temperet risu.)
HORACE, Odes. Bk. ii, ode 16, 1. 25.
"Yellow journalism" traces its origin to these
10
comics of the Hearst and Pulitzer newspapers,
The future is purchased by the present.
a phrase credited to Ervin Wardman, who, be-
SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Rambler. No. 178.
fore he died in January, 1923, was publisher or
Munsey's Herald.
The present is big with the future. (Le présent est
JOHN K. WINKLER, W. R. Hearst, p. 110.
gros d'avenir.)
LEIBNITZ.
For forty years he has carried out, rather literally,
the dictum of Mr. Dooley that the mission of a
PRESS, THE
PRESS, THE
PRESS, THE
1601
orks out great men's purposes;
modern newspaper is to "comfort the afflicted
enough for common souls,
and afflict the comfortable."
with a large bag:
the fourth look'd like
boking forward. are indeed
JOHN K. WINKLER, W. R. Hearst, p. 12.
one of your Vine Barbers.
1
enquir'd of one of their Coxwain's Pantagruel Crew who
erein forever. the footprints of their age
Did Charity prevail, the press would prove
A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.
those persons were? He answer'd that they
L, A Glance Behind the Curtain.
were the Four Estates of the Island.
COWPER, Charity, 1. 624.
2
RABELAIS, Works. Bk. iv, ch. 48. (1532)
13
ash, and let the Credit go,
This folio of four pages, happy work!
You have been a long time talking of the three
umble of a distant Drum!
Which not ev'n critics criticise.
estates; there is a fourth which, if not well
ÁM, Rubáiyát. (Fitzgerald, tr.)
COWPER, The Task. Bk. iv, 1. 50.
3
looked to, will turn us all out of doors-
Old, old man, it is the wisdom of the age.
the army.
no care for the future, they
STEPHEN CRANE, The Black Riders. No. xi.
LORD FALKLAND, Speech; in Parliament, 1638.
to sorrow for the present.
4
The "three estates of the realm" are the
M, Proverbs, p. 789. Chinese.
To give me information is thy office. (Σòv TÒ
Lords Spiritual, the Lords Temporal, and
unview éuoi.)
the Commons.
is dark, and the present is
EURIPIDES, Suppliants, 1. 98.
None of our political writers
take notice
5
of any more than three estates, namely, Kings,
of thorns for thy slumberless
The newspapers of either side,
Lords and Commons
passing. by in silence
These joys of every Englishman.
that very large and powerful body which form
elheus Unbound. Act i, 1. 562.
ANDREW LANG, The New Millennium:
the fourth estate in the community
the Mob.
6
FIELDING, Covent Garden Journal, 13 June,
and hardness of the human
Three hostile newspapers are more to be
22. 1752. See also MONTAIGNE, Essays. Bk. i, ch.
nketh only of present things
feared than a thousand bayonets.
14
:ot more for things to come.
NAPOLEON I, Sayings of Napoleon.
duritia cordis humani, quod
7
Mr. Fox's Board of Commissioners. which
mediatur, et futura non magis
The dull duty of an editor.
Mr. Pultenay and Mr. Pitt clamoured against
POPE, Preface to the Works of Shakespeare.
as a Fourth Estate. was to be responsible to
8
PIS, De Imitatione Christi. Bk.
Parliament. Mr. Pitt's Fourth Estate, of the
News value.
3.
Queen and her Council, is to have no re-
JULIAN RALPH. Phrase coined in 1892, in a
sponsibility.
what is to be?
talk at Columbia, to Brander Matthews's
UNKNOWN, Article, Gazetleer and New Daily
er. how shall taste the rind?
class Decade.) in English. (THOMAS BEER, The Mauve
Advertiser, 30 Jan., 1789.
'SON, The Hound of Heaven.
9
It is always the unreadable that occurs.
III-Press: Its Liberty
OSCAR WILDE, The Decay of Lying.
15
RESS, THE
What have the Germans gained by their
ess: Apothegms
II-Press: The Fourth Estate
boasted freedom of the press except the lib-
10
erty to abuse each other?
makes a headline.
The gallery in which the reporters sit has be-
GOETHE, Table-Talk. (1809)
nge Bedfellows, p. 179.
come a fourth estate of the realm.
16
MACAULAY, Essays: Hallam's Constitutional
The press restrained! nefandous thought!
:s" were seen, by the yellow
History. Tenth paragraph from end. (Pub-
In vain our sires have nobly fought:
i, "arriving recently out of
lished 1828.) in the Edinburgh Review, Sept.,
While free from force the press remains,
Virtue and Freedom cheer our plains.
ench Revolution. Pt. ii, bk. 3,
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parlia-
MATTHEW GREEN, The Spleen, 1. 394.
17
,k, indeed, is blue, but the
ment; but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder,
there sat a Fourth Estate more important far
No government ought to be without censors;
:S yellow.
than they all.
and where the press is free none ever will.
Familiar Letters.
CARLYLE, Heroes and Hero-Worship: The
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Writings. Vol. viii, p. 406.
sts, alienists, and psychologi-
Hero as Man of Letters. 1839. The state-
When the press is free and every man able to
make a careful study of the
ment is not found in Burke's published
read, all is safe.
osphere.
works, and it is probable that Carlyle inad-
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Writings. Vol. xiv, p. 382.
WARNER, The Yellows in
vertently attributed the phrase to Burke
18
per's Magazine, XC, 481.)
instead of to Macaulay.
The liberty of the press is the palladium of
11
traces its origin to these
A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.
all the civil, political, and religious rights of
an Englishman.
st and Pulitzer newspapers,
CARLYLE, The French Revolution. Pt. i, bk. 6,
Ervin Wardman, who, be-
ch. 5. (1837)
JUNIUS, Letters: Dedication.
19
ary, 1923, was publisher of
12
One of them was dressed like a Monk in his
Here tain, shall the Press the People's right main-
W. R. Hearst, p. 110.
frock, draggled-tail'd and booted: the other
carried out, rather literally,
like a Falconer with a lure and a long-tailed
Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain;
'ooley that the mission of a
hawk on his fist: the third like a Solicitor,
Here draw, patriot Truth her glorious precepts
1602
PRESS, THE
PRESS, THE
Pledged to Religion, Liberty, and Law.
mation than the whole of the historical works
Diff
JOSEPH STORY, Motto of the Salem Register.
of Thucydides.
Tho
Adopted 1802. (STORY, Life of Joseph Story.
RICHARD COBDEN, Speech, Manchester, 27 Dec.,
Vol. i, ch. vi.)
1850. (MORLEY, Life of Cobden. Vol. ii, p.
Tho
429, note.)
Liko
IV-Press: Its Power
9
Knc
1
He comes, the herald of a noisy world,
C
Great is Journalism. Is not every able Editor
With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and
1
a Ruler of the World, being a persuader
frozen locks;
The
of it?
News from all nations lumb'ring at his back.
the
CARLYLE, The French Revolution. Pt. ii, bk. i,
COWPER, The Task. Bk. iv, 1. 5.
G
ch. 4.
10
The true Church of England, at this moment,
The newspaper, which does its best to make
lies in the Editors of its newspapers. These
every square acre of land and sea give an
One
preach to the people daily, weekly.
account of itself at your breakfast-table.
mor
mor
CARLYLE, Signs of the Times.
EMERSON, Society and Solitude: Works and
C
2
Days.
The penny-papers of New York do more to
The
Behold the whole huge earth sent to me heb-
govern this country than the White House at
veh
domadally in a brown-paper wrapper!
Washington.
out
J. R. LOWELL, Biglow Papers: Ser. i, No. 6.
WENDELL PHILLIPS, Address: The Press.
11
irre
We live under a government of men and morning
Then hail to the Press! chosen guardian of
of
freedom!
newspapers.
2.
WENDELL PHILLIPS, Address: The Press.
Strong sword-arm of justice! bright sunbeam
I si
3
of truth!
The
Thay sed the press was the Arkymedian
HORACE GREELEY, The Press.
Leaver which moved the wurld.
12
ARTEMUS WARD, Artemus Ward, His Book:
Were it left to me to decide whether we
Wh
The Press. See also under POWER.
should have a government without newspa-
4
pers, or newspapers without a government, I
Da
In America the President reigns for four
should not hesitate a moment to prefer the
years, and Journalism governs for ever and
latter.
Fo
ever.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Writings. Vol. vi, p. 55.
OSCAR WILDE, The Soul of a Man Under So-
13
Th
cialism.
Trade hardly deems the busy day begun
Po
Till his keen eye along the sheet has run;
Ga
V-Press: Its Virtues
The blooming daughter throws her needle by,
WI
5
And reads her schoolmate's marriage with a
They consume a considerable quantity of
sigh;
Of
our paper manufacture, employ our artisans
While the grave mother puts her glasses on,
Lil
in printing. and find business for great num-
And gives a tear to some old crony gone.
Fr
bers of indigent persons.
The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lays
ADDISON, The Spectator. No. 367.
down
3
I would
earnestly advise them for their
To know what last new folly fills the town;
W
good to order this paper to be punctually served
Lively or sad, life's meanest, mightiest things,
ve
up, and to be looked upon as a part of the tea
The fate of fighting cocks, or fighting kings.
equipage.
CHARLES SPRAGUE, Curiosity.
ADDISON, The Spectator. No. 10.
Th
6
VI-Press: Its Faults
Ca
Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the
14
th.
common people. That endless book, the news-
Can it be maintained that a person of any
ser
paper, is our national glory.
education can learn anything worth knowing
of
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plym-
from a penny paper? It may be said that
outh Pulpit: The Press.
people may learn what is said in Parliament.
7
Well. will that contribute to their education?
4
Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost,
C:
Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?
ROBERT CECIL, Speech, House of Commons,
1861.
Torn, trampled underfoot, who counts thy
15
D
cost,
How shall I speak thee, or thy pow'r address,
Star-eyed intelligence?
Thou god of our idolatry, the Press?
MARY CLEMMER, The Journalist.
By thee, religion, liberty, and laws
8
Exert their influence and advance their cause;
5
I believe it has been said that one copy of the
A
By thee, worse plagues than Pharaoh's land
[London] Times contains more useful infor-
befell,
m
RESS, THE
PRESS, THE
PRESS, THE
1603
whole of the historical works
Diffus'd, make earth the vestibule of hell;
Hydra, without the slightest chance of his
Thou fountain, at which drink the good and
ultimate success.
v, Speech, Manchester, 27 Dec.,
wise;
Y, Life of Cobden. Vol. ii, p.
THEODORE Hook, Gilbert Gurney. Vol. ii, ch. 1.
Thou ever bubbling spring of endless lies;
6
Like Eden's dread probationary tree,
The man who never looks into a newspaper
crald of a noisy world,
Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.
is better informed than he who reads them,
boots, strapp'd waist, and
COWPER, The Progress of Error, 1. 460.
inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer
1
the truth than he whose mind is filled with
tions lumb'ring at his back.
The more of these instructors a man reads,
falsehoods and errors.
sk. Bk. iv, I. 5.
the less he will infallibly understand.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Writings. Vol. xi, p. 224.
GEORGE CRABBE, The Newspaper: To the
which does its best to make
Reader.
Perhaps an editor might
divide his paper
into four chapters, heading the first, Truths;
of land and sea give an
One editor will sometimes convey his abuse with
2d, Probabilities; 3d, Possibilities; 4, Lies.
at your breakfast-table.
more decency, and colour his falsehood with
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Writings. Vol. xi, 1. 224.
y and Solitude: Works and
more appearance of probability than another.
7
CRABBE, The Newspaper: To the Reader.
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one
huge earth sent to me heb-
These things have their use; and are, besides,
ever lays one down without a feeling of dis-
wn-paper wrapper!
vehicles of much amusement: but this does not
appointment.
glow Papers. Ser. i, No. 6.
outweigh the evil they do to society, and the
CHARLES LAMB, Last Essays of Elia: De-
irreparable injury they bring upon the character
tached Thoughts on Books and Reading.
Press! chosen guardian of
of individuals.
8
CRABBE, The Newspaper: To the Reader.
The press is like the air, a chartered libertine.
of justice! bright sunbeam
2
WILLIAM PITT, Letter to Lord Grenville, 1757.
I sing of News, and all those vapid sheets
The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous
The Press.
The rattling hawker vends through gaping
-licentious-abominable-infernal-not that I
streets;
ever read them-no-I make it a rule never to
ne to decide whether we
Whate'er their name, whate'er the time they
look into a newspaper.
ernment without newspa-
fly,
SHERIDAN, The Critic. Act i, SC. 1.
$ without a government, I
Damp from the press, to charm the reader's
9
a moment to prefer the
eye:
Blessed are they who never read a newspaper,
For, soon as morning dawns with roseate
for they shall see Nature, and, through her,
N, Writings. Vol. vi, p. 55.
hue,
God.
The Herald of the morn arises too;
THOREAU, Essays and Other Writings, p. 254.
S the busy day begun
10
ong the sheet has run;
Post after Post succeeds. and, all day long,
iter throws her needle by,
Gazettes and Ledgers swarm, a noisy throng.
I have been reading the morning paper. I do
When evening comes, she comes with all her
it every morning-well knowing that I shall
olmate's marriage with a
train
find in it the usual depravities and basenesses
Of Ledgers, Chronicles, and Posts again,
and hypocrisies and cruelties that make up
ther puts her glasses on,
ome old crony gone.
Like bats, appearing when the sun goes down,
civilization, and cause me to put in the rest
his Sunday theme lays
From holes obscure and corners of the town.
of the day pleading for the damnation of the
human race.
GEORGE CRABBE, The Newspaper.
3
MARK TWAIN, Letter to W. D. Howells, 1899.
new folly fills the town;
What is the newspaper but a sponge or in-
11
meanest, mightiest things,
vention for oblivion?
In-old days men had the rack. Now they have
cocks, or fighting kings.
EMERSON, Natural History of Intellect: Mem-
the press.
Curiosity.
ory.
OSCAR WILDE, The Soul of Man Under So-
cialism.
s: Its Faults
They have ceased to publish the "Newgate
Calendar" and the "Pirate's Own Book" since
d that a person of any
the family newspapers
have quite super-
VII-Press: The Press-Men
anything worth knowing
seded them in the freshness as well as the horror
12
of their records of crime.
Nor ever once ashamed, so we be named
? It may be said that
EMERSON, Society and Solitude: Works and
Press-men; Slaves of the Lamp; Servants of
it is said in Parliament.
Days.
Light.
oute to their education?
4
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD, The Tenth Muse. St. 18.
ch, House of Commons,
Caused by a dearth of scandal should the
13
vapours
Journalists say a thing that they know isn't
Distress our fair ones-let them read the
true, in the hope that if they keep on saying
e, or thy pow'r address,
papers.
it long enough it will be true.
try, the Press?
DAVID GARRICK, Prologue to Sheridan's "School
ARNOLD BENNETT, The Title.
rty, and laws
for Scandal."
14
nd advance their cause;
5
If there's a hole in a' your coats,
es than Pharaoh's land
A reply to a newspaper attack resembles very
I rede you tent it:
much the attempt of Hercules to crop the
A chield's amang you takin' notes,
1604
PRESS, THE
PRICE
And faith he'll prent it.
9
ROBERT BURNS, On the Late Captain Grose's
Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the
Peregrinations Thro' Scotland. St. 1.
devil. (Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut
When found make a note of.
au Malin.)
DICKENS, Dombey and Son. Bk. i, ch. 15.
Adopted as the motto of Notes and Queries.
LA FONTAINE, Letter to Simon de Troyes,
1686.
Note this before my notes.
10
There's not a note of mine that's worth the
I have always thought that I would like to
noting.
be a newspaper man myself, because I love
SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing. Act
ii, SC. 3, 1. 56.
the classics and I love good literature.
1
JOHN P. O'BRIEN, Speech, to a company of
A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon,
journalists, while mayor of New York, 1933.
A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon,
11
Condemn'd to drudge, the meanest of the
But I'll report it.
SHAKESPEARE, Coriolanus. Act i, SC. 9, 1. 2.
mean,
And furbish falsehoods for a magazine.
He will print them, without a doubt, for he cares
BYRON, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,
not. what he puts into the press.
1. 975.
SHAKESPEARE, The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Act ii, SC. 1, 1. 79.
Newspaper wits, and sonneteers,
12
Gentlemen bards, and rhyming peers.
CHARLES CHURCHILL, The Ghost. Bk. ii, 1. 513.
Ah, ye knights of the pen! May honour be
2
your shield, and truth tip your lances! Be
To serve thy generation, this thy fate:
gentle to all gentle people. Be modest to
"Written in water," swiftly fades thy name;
women: Be tender to children. And as for the
But he who loves his kind does, first and late,
Ogre Humbug, out sword, and have at him.
A work too great for fame.
THACKERAY, Roundabout Papers: Ogres.
13
MARY CLEMMER, The Journalist.
3
The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.
As for the press, I am myself a "gentleman
THACKERAY, Roundabout Papers: The Thorn
of the press," and I have no other escutcheon.
in the Cushion.
14
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Speech, House of Com-
mons, 18 Feb., 1853.
An Ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie
4
abroad for his country; a news-writer is a man
With much communication will he tempt thee,
without virtue who lies at home for himself.
and smiling upon thee will get out thy secrets.
SIR HENRY WOTTON, when twitted on his
Apocrypha: Ecclesiasticus, xiii, 11.
famous definition of an Ambassador by a
5
newspaperman. (Relique Wottonianæ.)
Ask how to live? Write, write, write any-
See also under DIPLOMACY.
thing;
The world's a fine believing world, write
PRETENCE, see HYPOCRISY
news!
JOHN FLETCHER, Wit Without Money. Act ii.
PRICE
6
I am a printer, and a printer of news; and I
See also Worth
do hearken after them, wherever they be at
I-Price: Apothegms
any rates; I'll give anything for a good copy
15.
now, be it true or false, so it be news.
Buy not what you want, but what you need;
BEN JONSON, News from the New World.
what you do not need is dear at a farthing.
7
(Emas non quod opus est, sed quod necesse
He wrote for certain papers which, as every-
est; quod non opus est, asse carum est.)
body knows,
CATO, Relique. (JORDAN, p. 79.) Quoted by
Is worse than serving in a shop or scaring off
Seneca, Epistulæ ad Lucilium. Epis. xciv,
the crows.
sec. 27.
RUDYARD KIPLING, Delilah.
Never, from a mistaken economy, buy a thing
8
you do not want because it is cheap; or, from a
The highest reach of a news-writer is an
silly pride, because it is dear.
empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Con-
LORD CHESTERFIELD, Letters, 10 Jan., 1749.
jectures on the public Management.
Never buy what you do not want because it is
LA BRUYÈRE, Les Caractères. Cl., 1.
cheap; it will be dear to you.
The News-writer lies down at Night in great
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Writings. Vol. xvi, p. 111.
Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which cor-
16
rupts before Morning, and which he is obliged
What costs little is valued less.
to throw away as soon as he awakes.
CERVANTES, Don Quixote. Pt. i, ch. 34.
LA BRUVÈRE, Les Caractères. Ch. 1.
What we obtain too cheaply we csteem too
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