JOURNALISTS AND WEALTH
To say that Mr Arthur Brisbane was the most famous of American columnists ” (writers of a signed column in » daily' paper) would be to invito challenge as to the definition of fame. “ Notorious ”is a safer- word. Brisbane .was. said to earn £75,000 a year by His writings, and he made, a great deal more by shrewd investment. His journalistic success was mainly to facility in exploiting the ignorance and prejudices (he was full of igiicranee and nrejudice himself)-of the-readers of the ‘Hearst Press.’ His chief obsession was hatred of Great Britain and all it stood for. He. may have Hated the League of Nations and other- institutions with any touch of ideals about them even more, but there was not much in it either way. It is a depressing reflection that fortunes are made that way, while serious and responsible journalists are hard put to it to achieve a modest competence. But other instances could ,be quoted—some of them nearer home.
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Evening Star, Issue 22578, 20 February 1937, Page 2
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165JOURNALISTS AND WEALTH Evening Star, Issue 22578, 20 February 1937, Page 2
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