【生活常识教科书】THE_REPORTER_WHO_MADE_HIMSELF_KING(称王的记者).pdfVIP

更多好书请点击 THE REPORTER WHO MADE HIMSELF KING THE REPORTER WHO MADE HIMSELF KING 1 更多好书请点击 THE REPORTER WHO MADE HIMSELF KING The Old Time Journalist will tell you that the best reporter is the one who works his way up. He holds that the only way to start is as a printers devil or as an office boy, to learn in time to set type, to graduate from a compositor into a stenographer, and as a stenographer take down speeches at public meetings, and so finally grow into a real reporter, with a fire badge on your left suspender, and a speaking acquaintance with all the greatest men in the city, not even excepting Police Captains. That is the old time journalists idea of it. That is the way he was trained, and that is why at the age of sixty he is still a reporter. If you train up a youth in this way, he will go into reporting with too full a knowledge of the newspaper business, with no illusions concerning it, and with no ignorant enthusiasms, but with a keen and justifiable impression that he is not paid enough for what he does. And he will only do what he is paid to do. Now, you cannot pay a good reporter for what he does, because he does not work for pay. He works for his paper. He gives his time, his health, his brains, his sleeping hours, and his eating hours, and sometimes his life, to get news for it. He thinks the sun rises only that men may have light by which to read it. But if he has been in a newspaper office from his youth up, he finds out before he becomes a reporter that this is not so, and loses his real value. He should come right out of the University where he has been doing campus