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WHEN Dolan got the call to go up to the managing editor's office he knew this was going to be the blow-off, and all the way upstairs he kept thinking what a shame it was that none of the newspapers had any guts any more. Read the first page
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His solution is to start his own magazine, which he names The Cosmopolite and plans to make it a magazine that won't be afraid to tell it like it is. In fact, he sub-titles the magazine with the words "The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth". So intent is he on revealing the truth and seeing that the guilty are exposed, he completely ignores the fact that the toes that he steps on belong to some pretty mean people who won't be willing to stand by and be exposed without fighting back. Undeterred, he determinedly continues to produce his magazine, living by the phrase, "publish and be damned".
Written so many years ago (in 1937), yet the issues raised here are just as relevant today as they were then. Freedom of speech, racism, abortion, corruption in big business, are all still big issues that only the reckless or very courageous are willing to speak out about.
While competently written and brutally honest, this story doesn't quite go beyond the "curious and mildly entertaining" stage. I suppose it's because I find the idealism of the central character to be a bit over the top. No doubt McCoy, a former journalism, stuffed too much personal emotion into this book - without realising others might not share his strong compassion for uncompromised journalism *at all costs*.
Bottom line: an interesting read for McCoy fans, and those interested in the less than honorable side of 1930s American journalism.
Second, I thought this book was embarrassing. "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" was great, but this book is horribly clunky and obvious. Dolan, Bishop, and Myra do nothing but preach, and they do it badly. McCoy is better than this.
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