The Press: Views on News

Before the British Association for the Advancement of Science in London last week up rose two of the world's most vocal thinkers to speak their minds about the press.

H. G. Wells, popular historian of the past and of the future: "I have a profound conviction that the newspaper is as dead as mutton and that it will never come back. When we want to know the time we do not consult the newspaper. We ring up a charming young lady called 'Time.' Shall we be able, when things get going again, to dial...

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