SOURCE: Forsyth, F. Howard. Review of The Disappearing Daily, by Oswald Garrison Villard. American Sociological Review 10, no. 2 (April 1945): 324-25.

In the following review, Forsyth finds many shortcomings in Villard's The Disappearing Daily.

This book [The Disappearing Daily] by a life-long journalist and supporter of liberal causes is better described by the subtitle as “chapters in American newspaper evolution.” It is in much of its total a series of essays about the chief newspapers and their owners in New York, Chicago, Boston, Washington and St. Louis. The selection of cities and of papers is not presented as logical or statistically meaningful, and cannot add up into a compelling argument.

It is doubtful that the author intended such an argument, for this book is frankly a rewrite of his previous volume, Some Newspapers and Newspapermen, published in 1923. Most of the chapters are lifted from the earlier book, polished lightly here...