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What is news? "In general practice," says Mr. Johnson, "news is what is in the newspapers; and newspapers are what newspapermen make them. It is a depressing reflection, rather a terrible reflection. But it is true." That this is pessimism there can be no denying. But that it is side-stepping the issue, as it may seem to many, is hardly true. Mr. Johnson has devoted almost a hundred pages to an elaboration of the principle of that dog-bitting man who has been so often slandered in this connection, and one feels with him at the end the futility...
...most cynical of us must hope that such a list as this reflects not the whole of public opinion or interest, and that the fault for the distortion of values that so characterizes journalism today must be laid where Mr. Johnson puts it, squarely on the shoulders of the newspapermen themselves...
...contract has been signed-said New York Supreme Court Justice John B. M. Stephens last week. His decision upheld the Rochester Times-Union in its refusal to print advertising copy of the Amalgamated Furniture Factories, Inc., which tried to make the public believe that it manufactured its own furniture. Newspapermen lauded Justice Stephens and the Times-Union; makers of gewgaws, bunion cures, lewd pictures bit their tongues...
...last week and kissed an amethyst ring. It was on the thick powerful finger* of a medium-sized cask of a man, whom two Mexican "very, very courteous" police sergeants a month ago had escorted out of Mexico, over the Guatemala border?Pasquale Diaz, Bishop of Tabasco, now exile. Newspapermen marveled at how, in the serenity of Catholic priesthood, this man's face had acquired its strained lines of truculence, combat and domination. He is a Jalisco Indian, born 1876 in Guadaljara, Mexico; trained by Jesuits in Spain and France; ordained priest in 1899, bishop in 1923. His face showed...
With all the other teams demanding more practice before risking their chances of a free meal on the squash courts, the newly formed CRIMSON outfit will play the confident H. A. A. aggregation today at noon. The newspapermen will have on their team the President, the Managing Editor, the Business Manager, and a News Editor, and a Photographic Editor of the CRIMSON. The inhabitants of the Union bandstand have not yet decided upon their final line-up, but their first three representatives are an follows. Number 1. Director of Physical Education. Number 2. S. Dej Osborne...