Word: scandalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thereupon everybody intervened. The Board of Governors of Chevy Chase passed a resolution authorizing an investigation of the scandal...
...Anthony's choice of "the best news stories of 1923" on the whole is fair. It does not include any prominent example of the "substantial, informative article" relating to business or political news?unless perhaps an article on the oil scandal can be so classed. In the main, it adheres to the more dramatic type of narrative. It is apparently an attempt to treat news articles by the standards of fiction. In a sense there is ample justification for this attitude. It is the newspaper man's business to vivify and dramatize news, within the scope of Truth. Several notable...
...tendency of newspapers to leature vice and scandal has usually been deplored: but even the yellowest of modern journals finds a defender or an apologist in the person of Dr. James Lee, Dean of Journalism at New York University. Basing his argument on the unusual theory that the "wages of sin are publicity" Dr. Lee apparently suggests that such sheets perform the useful task of rewarding iniquity. No less startling is his opinion that "the more space that is devoted to an erring minister the finer the tribute to the clergy as a whole...
...hope of changing the character of the daily news, for as Dr. Lee aptly said. "It is the taste of the fish and not that of the fisherman, which denotes the kind of bait to be used;" and the reading public shows little sign of changing its taste for scandal and crime exposures. Unfortunately it seems true that newspapers must follow rather than lead, and reflect the morals of the community rather than guide them...
Here are all makings of a pretty scandal. In the unavoidable absence of Mr. Longfellow, no one can determine whether Mr. Dexter Pratt, who lived on Brattle Street, was he of the famous muscles, or whether the poet's hero spoke with a strong Kentish accent. The only possible solution is that Mr. Pratt was a man of means who kept two establishments. Or possibly the poet was inspired by the cumulative effect of two constant trees...