Newspapers comprise the greatest single focus in the world today. They can hurt, heal, kill, crucify and resurrect at will. They can start wars, and have, and will continue to do so; as easily as they can stop them. They can make Gods of humble men and cause the world to worship these Gods or, if they desire, they can destroy the Gods and create new ones. Nothing is beyond the median effect of newspapers. They are the true teachers, priests, judges and executioners of this age. They tell us whom to hate and whom to love; how to dress, how to eat, how to sleep, and most importantly how to think. They speak and their voices are heard and obeyed. Yet a newspaper is an abstract thing. Newspapers do not, if fact, exist. What exists is a relatively small group of human beings--newspapermen. A few thousand of them at most. How many of these, I wonder, realize the power they represent? How man understand the extent of their responsibility?
To become journalists, you must automatically -- if you are an honest man -- give up the individual prejudices and biases that we equate with personal freedom. You must see that subjectivity has no place in the newspaper business, that it must be submerged and dissolved, always. Which is to say, you must tell the truth.
Before you settle in this career, examine the question; Are you willing, are you able, to tell the truth? Is it within your power to make the intellectual and physical and spiritual sacrifices that are necessary to do that seemingly simple thing, and do it consistently? Can you tell the plain, unadorned, unslanted truth regardless of the consequences real or imagined?
If the answer is yes, then you should not hesitate to give your lives to journalism, for you will become forces for incalculable good in the world.
If the answer is no, then I beg you to take up other pursuits -- any other pursuits. For a weak journalist can bring darkness to the earth more quickly than the mightiest king....
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