Word: partisanships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democratic party in the Senate has three wings: the urban, wet, conservative East, the dry, conservative South, and the Progressive, dry, agrarian West. The tariff and prohibition, two issues which still bear in them the seeds of vigorous dissension, of partisanship and high political fury, will either' of them split this loose confederation...
Under his administration the Tariff Commission obtained great influence and prestige chiefly because of its non-partisanship. With the advent of the Republican Administration, however the composition of the commission was altered to suit the high tariff requirements set forth in the Republican platforms of 1920 and 1924. It has lost not only its unbiased character, but, according to Professor Taussig, something of its efficiency as well...
...remained for Will Rose. editor of the Cambridge Springs "Enterprise News" to exalt this state of affairs into even higher realms. In the current issue of "Scribner's he recounts the benefits which have accrued to himself and other publishers who have divorced partisanship from their columns. Advertising is booming; circulation has increased. Irate subscribers are no longer constrained to toss his paper across the room because it harrows their political sensibilities. The new policy aims to offend no one--and there is peace...
...understood that this recently achieved neutrality is not only more profitable to the publishers, but fairer to the public. Since the supporting of definite political policies is part of the function of a conscientious press, a leaning towards either one party or the other is, however, a necessity. Partisanship which confines itself to the editorial page is as defensible as the party system itself. The professedly non-partisan journals have chosen to vacillate rather than offend their advertisers...
However much it may increase the value of the paper as a party organ this policy materially impairs it in exercise of a public purpose, the dissemination of fact news among the people. The unheralded entrance of partisanship into news columns, subjects the less discerning reader to a most powerful and intangible mode of convincing namely, tabloid indication and constant veiled repetition of a doctrine, an insinuation, or an attitude...