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Show THE Deseret News Editor’s note: This is the articles on Deseret Evening news next policies. The reasons why the News al the 10 in a series News editorials article will discuss published a vicious assailing the and the been the partisan Wagner-Murray for discussion which will come up Senate when Congress re-convenes next | month. Editorials ress even once in a quarter recall no single instance. of editori- 1161) (SR bill in August on first SEARCHLIGHT of a century? Invariably it advocate We has of black -reaction and savage plutocracy. Always in the political and.economie struggles of the last three decades the News has ranged itself on the side of the moneyed interests—the well-organized combines that ex- act a maximum from the people in return for Salt Lake City has a athe: newspaper fortunate enough to have free and easy access to a bottomless purse—a newspaper that has no financial worries. Its expenditures need not be ‘based on advertising or other revenues. We refer to the Deseret Evening News. Manifestly, such a paper should be free from the impelling motives that cause editorial sanctums to harken to commercial influences that have.a way of creeping in through the ‘business’? office. Such a newspaper should operate on the highest ethical standards. That type of newspaper can and should report news on a factual basis and should comment on the news from the viewpoint of the public interest. Under no circumstances should a newspaper, so far removed from financial distress, resort to news fixing that leaves its economic, political, and social stories, a mere mass of twisted propaganda. Such a newspaper should serve humanity first, last, and all the time. It should never degrade the fourth estate by a slinking’ subserviency to vicious exploitation and manipulation. In short, it should be a splendid, honorable newspaper—an acknowledged leader in the journalistie field. a minimum. It has consistently suppressed or doctored news for the benefit of unscrupulous utilities, pillaging mining interests, bank- ing groups interested in exorbitant interest rates, Insurance companies with a yen for manipulation rather than service, sugar corporations and profiteers, and powerful commercial institutions. Did you know that ZCMI forced a manufacturer of glass fruit jars to divert a. carload ofyjars from a.competitor who needed them badly? Just in the last year or two? If you knew, you didn’t learn it from the Des- eret Evening News. ful about the ZCMI. ‘The News is very care- The Deseret News has carried the propaganda ball for virtually every corporate inter- est that has sought special privileges in the Legislature. It pleads their causes with a fervor and persistence normally expected only of house organs. It acts as defender of lackeys of those same interests. It ridicules and attacks every progressive ideal of twentieth century democracy. The Deseret News has assailed the Roosevelt administration with unexampled hatred and fury because that administration has led the way toward an enlightened division of the But is the Deseret Evening News such a paper? Does it ever approach a problem from a disinterested standpoint? Is its editorial fruits of labor, industry, commerce, culture. page tive bargaining with equal venom and persistence, because it recognized in labor organizations the greatest single force for progress in the United States. Indeed, it has become the ardent mouthpiece of American fascists in the Rocky Mountain region. an unbiased forum reflecting the needs of the people? Or is that page an apologist for the counting house, and for corporate buccaneers? In the memory the Deseret half of the cause the News of the Utahn, has ever lifted a hand in be- downtrodden, unacquisitive? oldest Has the under-paid, it championed of the masses, or led the march or the of prog- It has attacked trade We editorial believe it is policies time be (Continued unionism and that examined on and following its agrl- collec- news in relation page) and to |