June Night (1940)

Sigurd Wallén: Chefredaktör J:son-Eld

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• Chefredaktör J:son-Eld : What's this? What sort of tasteless, sensationalistic journalism is done behind my back at my own paper? Some nice little surprise to come home to! Isn't there a night editor who can change that brat's diapers before - there you are, you conceited bastard. Since when do reporters decide the newspaper's position? Soon the janitors or shareholders will tell me what to think. Here I've written an editorial about the rebelliousness of youth, their gangster mentality and promiscuity. All based on that filthy case in Gustafssund. The best article I've ever written. Now how can I publish it?

• Chefredaktör J:son-Eld : This girl is pure as an angel, no matter what she's done. Young, passionate, a new Juliet, a child of love and death.

• Chefredaktör J:son-Eld : You've got a certain nose for news. A certain go-getter spirit. But, you lack taste, my boy. You see, that girl was once interesting and sympathetic. She represented a particular type: the passionate who follow their own destiny. Then it was right to write about her. But not more than once. One more time? No. That would seem like persecution. It would be both tasteless and tactless. You see, a newspaperman must have tact. You're too young, too green, and too self-absorbed and cruel, as youth is. But, it will pass.

• Chefredaktör J:son-Eld : No. It's not decent. But why is the switchboard girl meddling in editorial matters?