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It Seems to Heywood Broun
Broun, Heywood | April 2, 1930 issue

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The article discusses journalism anecdotes. In halcyon days, all journalists were hacks and unashamed. Indeed "journalist" was practically a synonym for "hack." And, being hacks, the boys and girls worked hard and dug for news. They often found out who it was who committed the murder several days before the police had heard that anyone was injured. If the day's assignment was to type the weather reports, that was all right, too. Copy readers were accepted as friends and comrades by the writing men. There was no feeling that any great damage had been done to English literature if several paragraphs came out of the lead and a little more was snipped off at the end.

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JOURNALISTS; JOURNALISM; LITERATURE; PUBLICITY; AMATEUR journalism; OCCUPATIONS
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