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CONTENTS
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Interviews still part of newspaper 246
Improvement in interview 246
Advantages of interview 247
Interview of group activities 247
Collective interviews 247
Interview prolific source of error 248
Genera] reasons for questioning its authoritativeness 248
Chapter XI
The Editor and the Editorial
Development of the editorial 249
Defoe and the editorial 249
The early editorial in America 250
The Alien and Sedition Acts and the editorial 250
Is the editorial declining 251
Personal journalism 251
Decline of personal journalism 252
Uncertainty as to its reflection of public opinion 252
Identification of editor with community 252
Harvey W. Scott and the Pacific Northwest 253
Responsibility of such identification 253
Carlyle on the editor 253
Lord Acton as editor 254
"A soldier of conscience" 254
Social evolution of the editor 254
A. A. Watts on the editor 254
Sir Wemyss Reid on the press 255
Catling and the press 255
Changes in opinion of the editor 255
Bohemia and the editor 256
Titled editors 256
De Tocqueville on the American editor 256
Editorial omniscience 257
Delane and the Civil War 257
Lowell to Leslie Stephen 257
John Stuart Mill to Motley 258
Cobden and Delane 258
Division of labor in the sanctum 258
Corporate ownership supersedes personal ownership 259
Effect of change on editorial 259
Possible explanation of decline of editorial 259
Explanation seen in government relation to press 259
This debatable 260