| Show why religious news is not reported how comes it baseball base ball and horse racing news is reported with great care and fullness while the leading religious events are either ignored altogether or indifferently reported Is it not because newspaper editors have learned that persona who belong to tho theatrical or tho ing or the mercantile public buy their papers according as they find in them full prompt and sympathetic treatment of theatrical sporting and market news whereas religious people a such do not discriminate in their patronage of newspapers with a corresponding exactness in other words do religious reli gous people feel as keen an interest in religious as the baseball public feels in the news of a horse race I 1 do religious people to any considerable sid erable degree choose one paper rather than another because one paper gives more prominence to religious news than another or treats it with a moro sympathetic apprehension you can go up one bench and down another at a baseball base ball game and every man in the crowd will tell you what papers of the next morning will have a full and glowing account of the match then m progress and which will dismiss it in a few cold lines and very many of them will make their purchase of a paper on the following morning on that oasis of choice now apply that mode of reasoning to religious people out of an audience assembled in p city for somo notable religious occasion how many will bo able to predict the relative prominence that will be given to that meet ing by the newspapers and how many will go to the newspaper stand the following day and buy a paper confident without looking it through that it gives a good account of the event in short it ig not after all a question of supply and demand forum |
