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Show COMMUNITY NEWS AND PEOPLE The local community newspaper has just one field the local community news, local people and interests. "When it fails to develop that type of news and goes into the field of national or state features, it cheats its readers read-ers to that extent. It is spending its space and money panning cJf f on them something they can get more effectively effec-tively elsewhere, and neglecting the one reason for its existence. The things which happen to the home community people, their activities, their doings, their adventures or experiences, their opinions and desires are the meat of the local weekly or semi weekly in a state like we live in, where nearly everybody takes a state paper or national publication for state and national news and comment. Such community news and comment can be developed and printed only in the local community. The local paper has an obligation to the community in which it is printed which challenges the best in any editor and his staff. If they cannot see the possibilities and the responsibilities they ought to get out and leave the field to someone who can. And that someone should not be some distant owner. That community is unfortunate unfor-tunate whose paper is owned and dominated by anyone outside its own borders. It is a cause for community alarm when the local paper is bought-up by a chain. Don L. Berry in Indianola (Iowa) Record-Herald. |