Editor Bites Reader: Today's Newspaper.

The article discusses newspapers. It is not so much that we are too familiar with newspapers as that they are getting too familiar with us. They are indifferent to our emotions, bored with our fears, disrespectful of our hopes. The paper that our grandfathers bought for a penny now costs a nickel, but it weighs fifty times as much. It is so heavy that it rests on the heart like lead. The buyer pays for news; he gets war, death, slander, corruption, catastrophe, fornication, and frivolity. This is news, we are told, because it is not commonplace, not an everyday happening.