The Press: Fleet Street Flayed

To many a British journalist a U. S, reporter is a creature who chews black cigars, speaks to ladies without removing his hat, stoops to anything for the sake of a story. Many a U. S. newspaper man has a vague idea that the denizens of Fleet street are seedy essayists whose physiognomy entirely lacks a news-nose.

Week before last, in World's Press News (English weekly), one Garry Allighan. Anglo-American newspaperman, compared British news tactics disadvantageously to U. S. methods. Journalist Allighan said that he had been 14 years in newspaper business...

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