JOURNALISM.
Newspapers are getting to be much more than the mere transcript of the news and gossip of the day. They are pioneers in learned explorations; they are foremost in geographical history; they'are teachers of social science. They are no longer satisfied with disseminating the knowledge laboriously collected by savans, by travellers, by experimenters in natural philosophy; they must pursue their own investigations, and send their agents into all the halfexplored fields of science and adventure. The reporter of to-day is the adventurer who penetrates the desert and the jungle, the scholar who searches for relics of the forgotten past, the courier who bears the news of victory to courts and congresses across a wilderness and through hostile armies, the detective who pries into public abuses and discovers hidden wrongs, the pioneer who throws new centuries open to the world, the philanthropist who unbars the door of the torture chamber, the chemist who detects adulteration in the spice-box, the inspector who seizes false weights and measures, the auditor who exposes a theft in the public treasury. Journalism busies itself now with everything that affects the public welfare. It trenches upon the province once sacred to the scholar, and supplies the defects of an efficient government. Year by year its ambition becomes larger, its purposes more beneficent, and its means more abundant; and we can hardly doubt that it is destined in a very short time, to be the foremost of all the secular professions, the most powerful in its operations, the most brilliant in its rewards, and the most useful to mankind. —" New York Tribune."
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 117, 12 July 1873, Page 7
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265JOURNALISM. New Zealand Mail, Issue 117, 12 July 1873, Page 7
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