“All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced upon them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.”
More than sixty years after Henry Louis Mencken paid that left-handed compliment to scribes in his First Series of ‘Prejudices,’ the newspaper industry struggles to cope with itself, relentlessly pursuing commercial and professional objectives, trying to prove him wrong.
Call it freedom of expression, liberty of speech or the right to know, newspapers the world over have been platforms for reflecting public opinion, setting the stage for transparent exposure of ideas as well; which is how and why, newspapers have always been the eyes and ears of people.
On such a score, Indian Newslink could perhaps seek justification in its pride as a true servant of its people, who have extended their patronage since its first appearance thirteen years ago. In its anxiety to perform its tasks, maintaining avowed principles of class journalism, this publication has had the privilege of support and guidance of advertisers, the officialdom and of course readers, without all of which, it could not have moved on.
