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XVI Much more important than this clearly applicable test of vocabulary is the more general and less measurable test of programmes and news. MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN THIS CLEARLY APPLICABLE TEST OF VOCABULARY IS THE MORE GENERAL AND LESS MEASURABLE TEST OF PROGRAMMES AND NEWS
Certain phrases peculiar to the Free Journals find their way into the writing of all the rest. I could give a number of instances. I will give one: the word "profiteer." It was first used in the columns of "The New Age," if I am not mistaken. It has gained ground everywhere. This does not mean that the mass of the employees upon daily papers understand what they are talking about when they use the word "profiteer," any more than they understand what they are talking about when they use the words "servile state." They commonly debase the word "profiteer" to mean some one who gets an exceptional profit, just as they use my own "Eye-Witness" phrase, "The Servile State," to mean strict regulation of all civic life--an idea twenty miles away from the proper signification of the term. But my point is that the Free Press must have had already a profound effect for its mere vocabulary to have sunk in thus, and to have spread so widely in the face of the rigid boycott to which it is subjected.   CHAPTER SIXTEEN OF THE FREE PRESS BY HILAIRE BELLOC RECORDING BY SHAHN MC LEAN
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