The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism

Chapter VII—he signed a contract with the “New York Journal,” and

thereby incurred the furious enmity of the “New York World”! So then the editors of the “World” remembered that story which they had got from the Russian Embassy; or maybe the Embassy reminded them of it again. By this story they could destroy entirely the news-value of Gorky’s writings; they could render worthless th...