The Pressman of Today.
The "typioal newspaperman" of to-day is a young man. He ia college bred, he comes from a good family, and is a gentleman by birth and breeding. He is brighter, quicker, has broader knowledge of men and affairs, and he makes and spends more money than his brother who goes into "business." He is well dressed, well honsed, and well fed. He has learned that Bohemianum does not pay, and he has left that sort of Bohemianism to chronic bummer* and greenhorns. The tone, the morale of the profession have changed within the last twenty years, and the public is only just beginning to find it oat. Educated people who keep their eyes open realise that their notions of the " typical newspaper man " are sadly ont of joint, and they are revising their types. The profession is slowly moving towards its rightful place in publio estimation, and the time is not very Far off when H will stand, not at par with, bat ahead of the i law the pulpit, medicine, and the other liberal professions.—« Printer's Ink.'
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Evening Star, Issue 8772, 12 March 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)
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182The Pressman of Today. Evening Star, Issue 8772, 12 March 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)
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