Word: continentality
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Senator La Follette of Wisconsin arrived in the U. S. fresh from a European tour, in which he investigated conditions on that continent. The Senator was principally impressed by what he had seen in Germany:
"You cannot single out the newspapers of Europe and say that they alone are responsible for the present disorder in Europe," said Mr. James E. King of the editorial staff of the Boston Evening Transcript when asked to estimate the influence the propaganda published in European papers has had in...
"That is an example of the newsgathering efficiency of the papers in America. On the continent of Europe there is far less coordinated effort for comprehensive news. Despatches are short and incomplete. There is little cooperation among the newspapers.
"In America, even a newspaper, as definitely Republican as the Transcript, does not hesitate to criticize the Republican party. But on the continent there is little of this healthy criticism.
Mr. James E. King of the Transcript in comparing European and American newspaper is inclined to fall in with the general opinon that the standards of the latter are far higher. Commenting on their "fragmentary incompleteness" he also charges the newspapers of the Continent for he excludes England with political...