Word: competitorsâ
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...opinions. It is the story of a soft martyr, who never actually recanted, but tried to mollify his persecutors by concessions. The manner of this compromise was well described by Oswald Garrison Villard in his Some Newspapers and Newspapermen*. The Star adopted the formal tactics of its commercial competitors???screaming headlines, comic strips, subscription premiums. By these methods its business managers tried to gain circulation, and they got perhaps 60,000?no mean feat. But it went further in its compromises; it toned down the vigor of its editorials. It was no longer a piping hot radical? it was still...
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