Chapter II: Introduction: Willard Grosvenor Bleyer ix

SOME ASPECTS OF JOURNALISM. _Rollo Ogden_ 1

PRESS TENDENCIES AND DANGERS. _Oswald Garrison Villard_ 20

THE WANING POWER OF THE PRESS. _Francis E. Leupp_ 30

NEWSPAPER MORALS. _H. L. Mencken_ 52

NEWSPAPER MORALS: A REPLY. _Ralph Pulitzer_ 68

THE SUPPRESSION OF IMPORTANT NEWS. _Edward Alsworth Ross_ 79

THE PERSONAL EQUATION IN JOURNALISM. _Henry Watterson_ 97

THE PROBLEM OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. “_An Observer_” 112

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: A REPLY. _Melville E. Stone_ 124

CONFESSIONS OF A PROVINCIAL EDITOR. “_Paracelsus_” 133

THE COUNTRY EDITOR OF TO-DAY. _Charles Moreau Harger_ 151

SENSATIONAL JOURNALISM AND THE LAW. _George W. Alger_ 167

THE CRITIC AND THE LAW. _Richard Washburn Child_ 181

HONEST LITERARY CRITICISM. _Charles Miner Thompson_ 200

DRAMATIC CRITICISM IN THE AMERICAN
PRESS. _James S. Metcalfe_ 224

THE HUMOR OF THE COLORED SUPPLEMENT. _Ralph Bergengren_ 233

THE AMERICAN GRUB STREET. _James H. Collins_ 243

JOURNALISM AS A CAREER. _Charles Moreau Harger_ 264

BIBLIOGRAPHY 279

NOTES ON THE WRITERS 290