Excerpt from The Influence of the Press
Every journalist will be able to pick holes in my argument and look for errors in my history. But he should not complain that the history is not exhaustive, for this book is not a history; nor that my description is incomplete, for to describe the Press is not my purpose. I have made no attempt to tell amusing stories of editors who have outwitted Cabinet Ministers, or correspondents who overheard the confidences of Sultans. Nor has it been my business to describe the manufacture of a newspaper, the routine duties of reporters and subeditors, or the mysterious, intricate mechanism which only head printers understand. If I have said little, for example, about the London correspondents of provincial papers, it is not because I do not appreciate their importance, but because their special status is not relevant to my argument.
My aim has been to examine the function that is fulfilled by the Press at all times, and particularly the part that it plays in modern life.
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