Claud Cockburn: the original ‘guerilla journalist’ and a paragon of respectability within the trade
H.L. Mencken famously observed that the proper relation of journalist to politician should be that of dog to lamppost. This enticing observation arose from Mencken’s general cynicism – a trait that is always in danger of making the cynic as shallow as the motives he presumes limit other people. Claud Cockburn, whom Graham Greene called The post Claud Cockburn: the original ‘guerilla journalist’ and a paragon of respectability within the trade appeared first on Catholic Herald.
H.L. Mencken famously observed that the proper relation of journalist to politician should be that of dog to lamppost. This enticing observation arose from Mencken’s general cynicism – a trait that is always in danger of making the cynic as shallow as the motives he presumes limit other people. Claud Cockburn, whom Graham Greene called
The post Claud Cockburn: the original ‘guerilla journalist’ and a paragon of respectability within the trade appeared first on Catholic Herald.
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