It was a favour­ite say­ing in the nine­teenth cen­tury, and early twen­ti­eth, that the press had replaced the pul­pit. As one young writer put it in the 1930s:

Journ­al­ism in fact ful­filled one of the func­tions of a church. Writers of the time fre­quently referred to this aspect of it, and accord­ing to their bio­graph­ies sev­eral of the higher journ­al­ists had thought of tak­ing orders… Con­tinue read­ing →