it is strange that the popular press as an art form has often attracted the enthusiastic attention of poets and aesthetes while rousing the gloomiest apprehensions in the academic mind .
Marshall Mc Luhan. Hot and Cool. Understanding medias etc...
Declining to write for the revue Européenne in 1831 Lamartine said to its editor :
do not perceive in these words a superb disdain for what is termed journalism. Far from it ; I have too intimate a knowledge of my epoch to repeat this absurd non sense, this impertinent inanity against the Periodical press......