Stentor : $b or, The press of to-day and to-morrow — John Shaqi
Stentor : $b or, The press of to-day and to-morrowOckham, David
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Stentor : $b or, The press of to-day and to-morrow
Ockham, David
Press; Press -- Great Britain
The professional will not, of course, be entirely eliminated from
journalism. Despite their love of the amateur, newspaper proprietors
realise that his place is not among the reporters, the news editors,
the sub-editors, the financial editors, or the “art editors”――whose
concern lies not with art, but with news photographs. As to editors,
that is another matter. The rôle of editor tends more and more to
become that of conduit pipe between staff and proprietary, whose views
and policy he is called on to expound and further. So that the amateur
will add the editorial chair to his Press conquests. Indeed, he has
already made a beginning.
One figures the popular “dailies” of the next decade, with their
signed articles by film stars, politicians, jockeys, footballers,
tennis players, and racing motorists. One visualises their Women’s
Page, Beauty Hints, and Guide to the Fashions, ostensibly conducted
by popular actresses whose time is already fully occupied in meeting
the conflicting claims of the Stage and of “Society.” One foresees
the daily sermon by the proprietor’s pet divine, and the daily health
article by the medical man who regards the stylo as more lucrative
than the scalpel. One foresees also an immense increase in the
number of photographs and other pictures, aided by the development
of telephotography, television, and air transport. The motorist, the
golfer, the collector of antique furniture, the amateur gardener, the
investor, will find more space devoted to their special interests.
There may even be room for an increase in the amount of space (if
not of the quality) devoted to book reviews, although this forecast
is admittedly optimistic. (What the public is supposed to want is
not literary criticism, but “gossip” about the personal habits, the
clothes, the recreations, the holidays, and the monetary earnings of
authors.)
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