Life, 1895-11-28 · page 8 of 26
Life — November 28, 1895 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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# "The Noble Art of Journalism" - Life Magazine Satire This page satirizes journalistic practices and Lord Dunraven, an apparent public figure involved in a sporting scandal (likely yachting, given references to "the ring" and "carat"). The cartoons mock journalists pursuing sensational stories. The top sketch shows a reporter interviewing someone about a scandal. Lower panels depict reporters aggressively questioning various subjects—a bishop about his name, someone about ivory satin purchases, and asking destinations. The accompanying text defends Dunraven against harsh press treatment, arguing his misfortunes resulted from bad judgment rather than malice, and suggesting English sportsmen should judge him fairly rather than condemn him in print. The satire targets both the press's sensationalism and the public's eagerness for scandal—showing journalists as intrusive and opportunistic.
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344 -* LIFE: THE NOBLE ART OF JOURNALISM. WHAT 1S EXPECTED OF AN UP-TO-DATE REPORTER, “PARDON ME, BUT IS THE RING 18 CARAT? I'M SOCIETY REPORTER FOR THE Daily Whirl.” “OSCUSE ME, BUT YOU HAVE SELECTED IVORY SATIN, HAVE YOU not?” ET us call Lord Dunraven no more hard names than is absolutely necessary. His case is one that may be more advantageously dealt with in sorrow than in anger. He seems to most of us a wrong headed person, who had, to be sure, some hard luck, but who brought the worst of his sporting misfortunes down by his own unwisdom on his own head. He seems still to be piling up troubles on him- self, and he may certainly be trusted to give himself all the discipline he may need. There are plenty of good sports- men in England who have shown that they have tried hard to judge Dunraven’s conduct and his charges and com- plaints on their merits, and not a few of them have censured his course. It is worth some time and pains to convince such men, if possible, that their representative yachtsman got just and sportsmanlike treatment here, and that such of his misfortunes as were not due to bad luck are attributable to his own folly. It is difficult to carry so much conviction so far across the seas, but with the earl’s own assistance, which seems to be singularly efficient, it may possibly be done. Oa ac “ONE MINUTE, BISHOP, BUT WOULD YOU GIVE ME YOUR FULL NAME?” “MIGHT I ASK YOUR DESTINATION ?”