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Bruce Rogers, A.B., Printing Adviser to the Press...
...grounds of race or religion." A few critics will complain that the report, with so many additional suggestions, leaves the issue just as much open as ever; far more will notice with disappointment that the committee has stood in evident dread of arousing "damaging suspicion" through the popular press and that it has feared to recommend "so rational a method" as personal conference or intelligence tests because it "appears inexpedient." And, if they seek suggestions either conclusive or startling they will look in vain. What they may forget is the fact that the obvious answer is often the right...
...Penny Press The Springfield Union, the Evening Union, the Springfield Republican and the Springfield Daily News increased the price of their issues from one to two cents a copy. A year ago. the Union and the Republican reduced their prices from two to one cent, but all Springfield papers have now come to the conclusion that the day of the penny paper is past...
...Albert Shaw's Review of Reviews will not say whether the American people are unpatriotic in their lack of interest in politics or whether the newspapers are criminally negligent in failing to print political news. But the following paragraph diplomatically scolds either the press or the public or both...
...sensational tendencies in journalism, and on the other to the fact that readers are superficial. In earlier periods, newspapers were much more political in their character than at present. In those days, except for an occasional prize fight or horse race, there was no sporting news in the daily press. But nowadays the sport pages alone occupy more space regularly than the political affairs of nation, state and city, all put together. The financial and business pages are vastly more elaborate than political and governmental news. The theatres, and other so-called amusement interests, are also accorded more attention than...