When President Woodrow Wilson named George Creel to head the World War I censorship and propaganda effort, Creel's career as a newspaper editorialist became the center of controversy. The New York Times of 16 April 1917 noted the entanglement of Creel's journalistic and political activities and concluded that neither revealed "any evidence of the ability, the experience, or the judicial temperament required to gain the understanding and cooperation of the press." In a Collier's magazine article, journalist Mark Sullivan judged the new chairman of the Committee on Public Information, the man who would govern the newspapers and reporters of the United States, in more definite terms: "For such a job Creel is the most unsuitable of men." Comparing him to the flamboyant evangelist Billy Sunday, Sullivan labeled Creel "temperamental, excitable and emotional to the last degree ... the most aggressive and daring of newspaper men ... the most violent of muckrakers. Creel...