Show I ION ON YELLOW I Henry Watterson In the Louisville expresses the opinion that d yellow Journalism can calt cannot not last Every decent American Citi Citizen zen en must earnestly hope that this will prove true Irue Mr lr Watterson argues I In time people II ople will become bacom familiar and grow tired ot or Its ita tricks and its man mai manners mainers ners nere of nt though nov so eo 0 highly cuned will viII r u a awhile while sicken aicken nil but bul the atom stomachs achs particularly when shen alel urn nr known to he be made minie of oC The Tho general genora public wilt will be bl educated to lo un WI understand the difference sensa sensational sensational enel and Ind fake talle matter anti legitImate anti reliable news Sprawling headlines will wilt no longer to carry fabrica fabrications anti and will Kill Clasa to provoke curiosity and therefore there tore to tomake tomake make talk and attract attention Head Headers I ers era vill 1111 mark the false Caito statement of toddy today which must he be correct d or le Ig d tomorrow and fl 11 Ire of or their newspaper nn nt pf pt trel tiei butch butth nn j their balder baller straight food a au u dent deal dealIng dentIn deaL Ing mi In This reasoning Is forcible The taste tase for tur or marks a certain stage singe of ot savagery but that kind of ot delicates delicatessen sen een Is s discarded us liS n a higher level ot or civilization Is II reached It li is I so se In the tho Ih Intellectual world too The Tho literary that satisfies nes the tide savage SiL 1 mind cannot for Cor or ever ho bo offered a 11 re respectable class clans of ot readers About a I year Car ago one ono who hat had been engaged In the objectionable Journalism made mallo nomo orna as liS to the moth meth methods ads employed that ought to have op fi opened ened tho eyes ce ot of tho the public lie told tol l lot of ot tho tIde faking taking of at It Interviews and aad mes messages sages alles from crowned heads Ho 10 related the facts Cacti about war stories and anti thu tide use of or tho tide camera for fOl purposes of or de tie deception e Ho lie said saul the tho fakers takers on the tha paper that him Invented names ending end In In iky anti and off ort anti loft loff l tc ant and ani gave then them to men who never existed and und supplied lu pictures of oC their wonderful exploits The patter paper called them dukes duke and counts anti and princes prince This was kept up ur until Count Cassini began te to write ask who those thoM WHO were an liS he had hal been b en unable to find any record of them One Incident Is III l peculiarly Illustrative of yellow ellow Journalism The Tho reporter whose confessions wn we have to was ordered to secure a n d drel word with Mrs parrot It was wal at lit tho the time when the tho engagement of Admiral Dewey Dewcy and Mrs flaxen Hazen was the tha topic of the day The reporter found that Mrs drs Huron Haton hal had no parrot but ut that ono one of oC her ser servants s owned on 1 a C bird The latter had hadnot hadnot hadnot not however learned to talk This truthful truth Cui report was sent to the uI C but word surd came back hack to obey obe that In An n with I I parrot was 1119 consequently tl writ written written ten tell and made as ns piquant ns as B possible considering the circumstances Such Is li yellow Journalism It seeks elIka to Influence public opinIon through anything that appeal to the tha prejudices prejudIce tho the selfishness and the tue low lower er or passions of ot human nature nil ture False Falsehood hood I II Its chief chlof stock Some Somo time thus pub huh public lie lic conscience will awaken against It anti It will wilt be condemned generally ns as asit tt it IH Is now by hy nil 1111 who understand Its Us nature anti and Its corrupting effects Colonel believes that the tha have been educated beyond tho the reach of oC that kind of oC Journalism lie He says Journals that seem to h In New York anti ami Chicago could not exist In Iii London The Tho reason lies In Inthe Inthe Inthe the character bid and habits of or the people but hut more I 1 tako it In tho the force of ot rn In enlightened lightened progress and ant tho the fixity of ot standards On the material New NewYork NewYork York Is h till far In advance of But Bur Buton Buron on civilization atlon inclining the accretion of ot human experience London has n it fair loath lend anti and this Is neon cacti In tn the tho public or order order order der In the respect for tOr law 11 and In the i challenge which society gives to Inno lane Innovation I 10 lion I |