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A gang of pecksniffs : and other comments on newspaper publishers, editors and reporters

Title
A gang of pecksniffs : and other comments on newspaper publishers, editors and reporters / by H.L. Mencken ; selected, edited and introduced with a profile of Mencken as newsman by Theo Lippman, Jr.
Author
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956
Publication
New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House Publishers, [1975]

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Additional Authors
Lippman, Theo, Jr.
Description
206 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Journalism
  • American essays > 20th century
  • Journalism
  • journalism
  • American essays
Contents
Newspaper morals -- The public prints -- On journalism -- A gang of pecksniffs -- Max Ways as H.L. Mencken knew him -- Watterson's editorials reveal "Vacuity of Journalism" -- The newspaper man -- The reporter at work -- Memoirs of an editor -- A wholesaler in journalism -- Joseph Pulitzer -- Reflections on journalism -- Learning how to blush -- More tips for novelists -- Notes on journalism -- Adams as an editor -- Journalism in America -- The case of Hearst -- Georgia Twilight -- Twenty years -- Journalism in the United States -- Tainted news -- Twenty-five years -- Speech to the Associated Press -- The public prints -- Speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors -- A note on news -- The Newspaper Guild --Memo to Paul Patterson -- On false news -- Speech to the National Conference of Editorial Writers -- Interview with Donald H. Kirkley.
ISBN
  • 0870003208
  • 9780870003202
LCCN
75017980
OCLC
  • ocm01504863
  • 1504863
  • SCSB-111083
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library