Many are the sneers cast at the poor journalis. Of all the literary men his work is generally regarded as the lowest, the cheapest, the least valuable. It remained for a newspaper man to defend the newspaper fraternity, at least as compared with its magazine cousins. Laurence Stallings of The New York World had something to say on the subject in a recent article:
I know of one newspaper man who was receiving $25 for Sunday articles, and who failed to please his Sunday editor with a certain interview. It was a botch job....
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