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The impact of journalism on intellectual progress

There is no doubt that the intellectual culture has reached in its novelty and progress a limit that makes scientific and literary innovation what you think of its perfection of moral maturity. There is nothing more wonderful than it. You can discern the spirit of any nation or judge a historical ruling on any era, because you cannot do that with confidence and confidence unless you search for it and envisage that ruling. Newspapers, because they are the only ones that represent the psychology of the people and the policy of the state most faithfully, and they alone reveal to you, and they are the ones that clearly and frankly all that appeared at the time of discoveries, writings, incidents and news.

The daily newspaper is necessary for the man of the twentieth century. She opens his eyes to the morning light, so she wakes him up and offers him a handful. Facts and opinions and fawns over himself more than he fawns over the morning breakfast. In her writing that stirs the imagination and excites the soul, she tells the incidents, presents opinions, and in her resorting every day to new tricks in printing and in displaying pictures that give pleasure without any effort, the adoration of every modern boy, she always seeks to seduce him with that and with the ideas and rules presented to him in it. A little of the honey of literature, the essence of philosophy, and many daily incidents that he lives in its heat until others bring him again.

As for the magazine, which may appear once a week or every fifteen days, and sometimes once a month, it combines the elements of the newspaper and the book.

As indicated by the meaning of its derivational term, it always seeks or tries to seek to clarify a period of the world, and it has a kind of control over daily events that raises its value as it sifts it and leaves only what is suitable to be food for the formation of souls. A real journal that feels the importance of what you are doing must bear a trace of all important things that happen in the world, so it comments on books and mentions events and judges the actions and morals of men, and in addition to what has already been written, it presents new ones so that it can be a small and reasonable world in which you draw the elements of existence. And separate it according to the degree of greatness and real importance. It is only by this that the book shares its life and value, because it takes on its appearance at that time, not the appearance of the newspaper, so it is not thrown like daily newspapers - after reading them - in the wastebasket, as the peel of a banana is thrown after eating its pulp. The limited period of time refers to people's actions, compositions, thoughts, and ways of feeling or expressing them. Magazines have the middle place between a book and a newspaper, because the book is voluminous and slow, and the newspaper is brief and fast. And the magazine between. Whatever it is, the constant efforts of the spirit, the activity, and the revolving thinking create. Rather, everything in this life requires the two types of newspaper. It is the one that keeps pace with the procession of civilization in all its aspects, and it is the one that is considered the natural messenger for the development of spirit and thought. Jefferson, one of the presidents of the United States of America, meant such a newspaper when he said: “If I had to choose between a government without a press or a press without a government, I would not hesitate for a moment to choose the second situation.”