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A very large part of our current slang is propagated by the newspaper, and much of it is found by newspaper writer. One needs but turns to the slang of baseball to find numerous examples. For example, such phrases as “to clouting the sphere” and “the initial sack” “to slam the pill “and “the dexter meadow” are obviously not of bleachers manufacture. There is not enough imagination in that depressing army to device such things; more often than not, there is not ever enough intelligence to comprehend them. The true place of their origin is the perch of the newspaper reporters, whose competence and compensation is largely estimated, at least on papers of wide circulation, by their capacity for inventing novelties. The supply is so large that connoisseurship has grown up; an extra-fecund slang-maker on the press has his following. During the summer of 1913 the Chicago Record-Herald, somewhat was alarmed by the extravagant fancy of its baseball reporter, asking its readers if they would prefer a return to plain English. Such of them were literate enough to send in their votes which were almost unanimously against a change. As one of them said, “One is nearer the park when Schulte slams the pills than when he merely hits the ball.” In all other fields the newspapers originate and propagate slang, particularly in politics. Most of our political slang-terms since the Civil War, from pork-barrel to steam-roller, were their inventions. The American newspapers, years ago, passed through such a stage of bombast, but since the invention of yellow journalism by the elder James Gordon Bennett—that is, the invention of journalism for the frankly ignorant and vulgar—they have gone to the other extreme.
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