(2)The penny paper had found its fi

(2)The penny paper had found its first success in New York By the mid-1830s Ben Day’s Sun was drawing readers from all walks of life. On the other hand the Sun was a skimpy sheet providing little more than minor diversions;few today would call it a newspaper at all. Day himself was an editor of limited Vision and he did not possess the ability or the imagination to climb the slopes to loftier heights. If real newspapers were to emerge from the public's demand for more and better coverage, it would have to come from a youthful generation of editors for whom journalism was a totally absorbing profession, an exacting vocational ideal rather than a mere offshoot of job printing.