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...Pole, and the Florida hurricane, the list of news stories mentioned above must inevitably be considered the best and the biggest news of the past year. Someone once told Eric C. Hopwood of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, when he was a cub, that a newspaper should be like a mirror to the public consciousness in which it flourished. This is today the discouraging possibility. Even the 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...
...even this sufficed. Last week the tabloids were scenting still more pornography afar. The Hearst Mirror, which had referred to Browning as "Bozo Bunny," cried last week: "BOZO KING BEN NEXT! . . . Within a few weeks King Ben* will be tried . . . accused of ruining many young girls . . . more sensational than the Browning case...
...divorce hearings of a pawky lecher and his fleshy girl-wife. There are thousands of Edward West Brownings in the U. S., but never before had one sprawled forth whose pathological condition included lust for publicity. The pornoGraphic, closely followed by its loose-lipped fellow-tabloids, the Hearst Mirror and the Patterson-McCormick Daily News, and abetted by an accommodating judge, proceeded with an exploitation to which previous obscenities-the Arbuckle, Rhinelander, Hall-Mills and Chaplin cases-seemed a prelude almost refined. Pressing its usual policy, the Graphic had a paunchy man in pajamas and a plump girl...
...Mirror. The Hearst Mirror covered its front page with close-up portraits of the Brownings and, in prodigious type: "SUNNY CRAZY." (Mr. Browning's portrait stood for the "B" in "Bunny"). Shaking letters were used to print: "FLAMING YOUTH." Subtitle: "His Mania Causes Peculiar Love for Young Girls-Alienist." Text: "A famous [anonymous] alienist . . . diagnoses his case as 'pathological pedophilia,' a symptom of a disease of the brain classified as a sexual aberration. . . ." The Mirror, too, strove for features to please child minds-an "interview" (in mixed dialects) with Mr, Browning's pet African goose...
Clarence Mackay, telegraph lord: "I got last week a first glimpse of my granddaughter, Mary Ellin Berlin, aged eight weeks, but only in a full front page photograph in the New York Daily Mirror, tabloid. As everyone knows, I disowned my daughter Ellin when she married Irving Berlin, songwriter, and I have also refused to visit the baby or let the baby visit me. The child, which was photographed asleep, looks like any dark, fat, healthy baby. People say this is the first time any baby's picture has occupied the entire front page of a newspaper...