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Nicknames given to newspapers | 50 | |
Nicknames given by newspapers | 50 | |
Emblems used by the press | 51 | |
Headlines | 51 | |
Price | 52 | |
Sense of proportion | 53 | |
Changing standards of conventionality | 53 | |
Cartoons | 54 | |
Early discourtesy of the newspaper | 54 | |
The Covent-Garden Journal | 54 | |
Personal abuse common | 55 | |
Dickens on abuse in American papers | 55 | |
De Tocqueville on American journalists | 55 | |
Matthew Arnold on personality of American press | 55 | |
Walt Whitman on the press | 56 | |
Ill temper of newspapers | 56 | |
Provincial spirit | 56 | |
Independence of view | 56 | |
"Letters to the editor" | 57 | |
These characteristic of American and British press | 58 | |
"Answers to correspondents" | 59 | |
The Athenian Gazette | 59 | |
John Dunton and Defoe | 59 | |
Infallibility of the press | 60 | |
Omniscience of the press | 60 | |
"The Dogma of Journalistic Inerrancy" | 60 | |
"A saving sense of humor" | 61 | |
Charles Lamb and his "sixpenny jokes" | 61 | |
Professional humorists | 61 | |
"The colyum" | 61 | |
Personality seen in questions selected or omitted | 62 | |
Special editions | 63 | |
Differences in personality of metropolitan and of country press | 63 | |
Contrasts in personality of dailies, weeklies, and monthlies | 63 | |
Personality affected by personality of editor | 64 | |
But personality of paper independent of editor | 64 | |
Eccentric newspapers | 65 | |
Interest in such papers psychological rather than historical | 65 | |
Anonymity as an element in personality | 65 | |
Tendency towards signature | 66 | |
Signature favors pamphleteering | 66 | |
Explanation of change in tendency | 66 | |
Zola on signature | 67 | |
French law requiring signature | 67 | |
Effect of this in France | 67 |