The Press: Once Upon a Time

Thirty years ago, the following editorial, written by an editor 27 years old, appeared in a Kansas newspaper which that day printed 485 copies:

"In the first place, the new editor hopes to live here until he is the old editor, until some of the visions which rise before him as he dreams shall, have come true. He hopes always to sign 'from Emporia' after his name when he is abroad, and he trusts that he may endear himself to the people, that they will be as proud of the first words of...

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