“In taking up research work there are a few requirements that must be kept in mind. Probably the foremost necessity for the man of science is absolute honesty.”

Unfortunately I couldn’t provide for my family’s future on those wages, so I moved back to a larger city and back into my previous career (software engineering).

There will always be a need for reporters to find newsworthy events and write about them in such a way that it gets the public’s attention. It’s just the medium that is changing.

Humbug. I don’t know what’s worse–those who feign impartiality (and therefore hide their biases) or those who trumpet their biases. At least in the latter case, we know where they’re coming from.

On another topic, it is altogether appropriate for the writer to begin this piece with a bit of sloppy writing (which suggests sloppy thinking, doesn’t it?): “All people are not readers of books” doesn’t really mean “Not all people are readers of books”–but, as I say, it’s appropriate since this is the kind of writing that shows up even in our day of the non-newspaper.

My how things have changed in less than a century.

A tangential quote that used to be on the wall of the newsroom at the Daily Universe at BYU, illustrating the tension between print and broadcast media: “Television is called a medium because it’s neither rare nor well-done.”

And to finish this wandering comment, over the weekend my family and I watched Foreign Correspondent, an Alfred Hitchcock mystery about (what else?) a foreign correspondent. I know being a newspaper man in that era wasn’t all mystery and suspense — my great grandfather was a newspaperman through and through — but there is some romance associated with the profession.