The Press: Stupid Headline

News, like art, has never been adequately defined. Some understand it as the graphic record of a current event which is 1) unusual or 2) important. If a corporation president resigns his directorships to accept a job as bus boy, if a senator refuses to make a speech at a public dinner, if a revenue agent stops the sale of liquor — that is news. Such news may be presented in as entertaining a fashion as possible. But there is another kind of news — a narrative...

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