The newspaper editor in The Fountainhead, bad a philosopher as he was, is a nicely if somewhat perversely drawn portrait, of those times.
Revised from Lorch, State and Local Government:The Great Entanglement
American Political Science Convention:
'Professors versus the Laissez-Faire Free Press'
Newspaper Editor's retort to assembled Scholars:
"Don't you know what the newspaper business is all about, you bloody fool...For the past ten minutes you've been trying to make me out as some kind of hideous ogre devoid of any shred of social consciousness.
"You act as though you think the job of a newspaper is to be an educational institution for the masses.
"Education is your job, not mine.
"I run a business. That business is to make money. My stock in trade is something called 'news'. It isn't really news all the time-- it's entertainment in the guise of news quite often.... I am not going to print educational stuff that'll put me in the poor house."
The invisible, the Casanova, hand of the media at play...............
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