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Nicknames given to newspapers		50
Nicknames given by newspapers		50
Emblems used by the press		51
Headlines		51
Price		52
Sense of proportion		53
Changing standards of conventionality		53
Cartoons		54
Early discourtesy of the newspaper		54
The Covent-Garden Journal		54
Personal abuse common		55
Dickens on abuse in American papers		55
De Tocqueville on American journalists		55
Matthew Arnold on personality of American press		55
Walt Whitman on the press		56
Ill temper of newspapers		56
Provincial spirit		56
Independence of view		56
"Letters to the editor"		57
These characteristic of American and British press		58
"Answers to correspondents"		59
The Athenian Gazette		59
John Dunton and Defoe		59
Infallibility of the press		60
Omniscience of the press		60
"The Dogma of Journalistic Inerrancy"		60
"A saving sense of humor"		61
Charles Lamb and his "sixpenny jokes"		61
Professional humorists		61
"The colyum"		61
Personality seen in questions selected or omitted		62
Special editions		63
Differences in personality of metropolitan and of country press		63
Contrasts in personality of dailies, weeklies, and monthlies		63
Personality affected by personality of editor		64
But personality of paper independent of editor		64
Eccentric newspapers		65
Interest in such papers psychological rather than historical		65
Anonymity as an element in personality		65
Tendency towards signature		66
Signature favors pamphleteering		66
Explanation of change in tendency		66
Zola on signature		67
French law requiring signature		67
Effect of this in France		67