I f stone biography of michael

I am, I suppose, an anachronism. In this age of corporation men, I am an independent capitalist, the owner of my own enterprise, subject to neither mortgager or broker, factor or patron.

In an age when young men, setting out on a career of journalism, must find their niche in some huge newspaper or magazine combine, I am a wholly independent newspaperman, standing alone, without organizational or party backing, beholden to no one but my good readers.

I am even one up on Benjamin Franklin—I do not accept advertising.

The pieces collected in this volume are from a four-page miniature journal of news and opinion, on which I have been a one man editorial staff from proofreader to publisher.

I f stone biography of michael

This independence, like all else, has its price—the audience. My newspaper reaches a relative handful, but the 5,000 readers with whom I started have grown to more than 20,000 in ten years. I have been in the black every one of