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Show THE IMPORTANCE OF A NEWSPAPER IN A COMMUNITY By Beverly Dumas Newspapers are chiefly responsible re-sponsible for the characteristics of our present age. Printing is the means by which knowledge is spread. Without the printed page, including reading matter and pictures, mankind could not learn of the inventions and discoveries dis-coveries that have been the marvel mar-vel of modern times. Without printing the huge stocks of merchandise that present-day industry manufactures, could not be distributed. The book, the catalog, and newspaper are all necessities of a modern age. When we pick up a newspaper today and glance at the news, 1 we are up-to-date in the modern mod-ern world. Without the newspaper, news-paper, we may as well be back in the olden times. A newspaper is important, more perhaps than any other in-1 fluence, because it directs the thinking of people and because it deals with those subjects that are pertinent to the times and that are constantly in the public J eye. Moreover, it deals with matters of daily business, the home, fashions, politics, the ' sporting world, stories of adven-' ture and social life, storms, earthquakes, accidents, fires, and all things of human interest. inter-est. The world is full of great happenings and these are the newspaper s stock-m-trade. The daily paper has a chance to do a great amount of good and a vast deal of harm. All depends de-pends on how news is selected and handled. To gain and hold the public confidence, the n e w s p a per should be honest in its dealings and truthful in presenting the news. The printed page in general is playing an ever-increasing role in the life of the nation. If we were to stop and condense con-dense the hours of tedious work the editor of a newspaper puts in to bring us the facts, in a frank, straightforward way, we would realize that withnnt Vi newspaper, we would have no facts concerning people around us. Before we stop to criticize our own small papers, let's stop and realize the tremendous job they are doing for our benefit. |