Introduction: quality journalism reconsidered -- Principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections: the journalism out of which the United States was born -- "Yesterday's doings in all continents": the business of selling news -- Circulators of intelligence merely: the devaluation of news -- Bye-bye to the old "who-what-when-where": the return of interpretation -- Much as one may try to disappear from the work: the argument against objectivity -- The world's immeasurable babblement: what does and does not make journalism wise -- Shimmering intellectual scoops: the wisdom journalist, the journalism organization, their audiences, and our politics.