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An arrogant tabloid editor and his crass, shallow diary.(BOOKS)(LETTER FROM LONDON)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20050417
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Byline: Clive Davis, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

I hate to drag someone as fuddy-duddy as Anthony Trollope into a discussion of the tabloid newspaper business, but here is what he had to say, in "Phineas ReduxAE" about the gentlemen of the press: "Editors of newspapers are self-willed, arrogant and stiff-necked, a race of men who believe in themselves and little in anything else."

Trollope was writing about the bumptious Quintus Slide, editor of the so-called People's Banner. He is certainly not the most likeable of characters, but I wonder what the great Victorian ...

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