"News is what you print. If you don't print it, it isn't news. Isn't that right? Well, then!"
"Not quite. News is what happens. If no paper published this, it would be current by word of mouth just the same. A hundred people saw it."
"Anyway, tone your article down, won't you, Boy-ee?"
"I'm afraid I can't, Dad."
"Of course you can. Here, let me see it."
McGuire Ellis looked up sharply, his face wrinkled into an anxious query. It relaxed when Hal handed the editorial proof to the Doctor, saying, "Look at this, instead."
Dr. Surtaine read slowly and carefully. "Do you know what you're doing?" he said, replacing the strip of paper.
"I think so."
"That editorial will line up every important business man in Worthington against you."
"I don't see why it should."