An Englishman Teaching An American

It Is Impossible For Me To Estimate How Many Of My Early Impressions Of The World, Correct And The Opposite, Came To Me Through Newspapers. Homicide, Adultery, No-hit Pitching, And Balkanism Were Concepts That, Left To My Own Devices, I Would Have Encountered Much Later In Life.

The Country's Present Supply Of Foreign News Depends Largely On How Best A Number Of Dry Goods Merchants In New York Think They Can Sell Underwear.

News Is Like The Tilefish Which Appears In Great Schools Off The Atlantic Coast Some Years And Then Vanishes, No One Knows Whither Or For How Long. Newspapers Might Employ These Periods Searching For The Breeding Grounds Of News, But They Prefer To Fill Up With Stories About Kurdled Kurds Or Calvin Coolidge, Until The Banks Close Or A Hitler Marches, When They Are As Surprised As Their Readers.

Freedom Of The Press Is Guaranteed Only To Those Who Own One.

If You Just Try Long Enough And Hard Enough, You Can Always Manage To Boot Yourself In The Posterior.