Word: monitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...JOHNSON WINS MINNESOTA'S RACE; WET A POOR THIRD headlined The Christian Science Monitor. This is an excellent example of printing something that is absolutely true and at the same time giving a false impression. It is true that the only Wet in Minnesota's Senatorial race came in third. But Wet-vs.-Dry was not the issue. Aid-to-the-farmer was the issue, and it is conceivable that Candidate Carley (Wet Democrat) would have come in just as pitiful a third had he been...
Among newspapers, the Monitor is probably the country's chief proponent of the Dry cause. It delights in dragging Prohibition by the coattails into as many stories as possible, in an attempt to show that prohibition enforcement is a great success...
...Inches not columns. The Monitor calculates an average of 21 Inches to the column...
Still the Monitor advertises its departments as "Finance, Sports, Politics, etc.," and adds, "You will find all that a clean informative daily newspaper should offer you. ..." The Monitor outlawed the fight as " an event which is not merely mercenary in intent, but degrading, brutalizing and demoralizing in character...
...heavyweight championship of the world is a matter of sport news. Many another editor may realize that his own record is not entirely enviable in view of the Monitor's statistics, but he may also feel that the Monitor is equally guilty of a crime against journalism (which is the art of newsgathering) in ignoring such an important news event as took place at the little town of Shelby...