Deseret Evening News | 1909-12-06 | Page 4 | New Tasks for the Press

EW TASKS TASIS FOR TITE rilE PRESS ruESS New cw York Evening Post Henry appeal to 10 tho American press not to confuso confuse Its Us do dotIes tIes Ics with those thosa of or the tho police has lets bets widely commented on lIe He had arly larl In mind divorce scandals sensa sensational lonal crimes and an private misfortunes of or ono one kind hind or another and amid the tho table ahle newspapers have havo admitted the thc justice of his criticisms He did l not nol nolO of O course mean that no newspaper should undertake detective work worl in ill inho inthe ho tho public Interest It has frequently been of great to a locality a state or 01 even the tho country as aa a whole for tor or a newspaper to expose the baseness or of it u ring as the time Times laid bare tho the truth ruth about Tweed tho time good gool name ot or a city Is at stake smite where the tho th corrupt control of a State Is the Issue the he newspaper can cams often oCten ferret fenet out timings things that are arc beyond the skill of ot pub pubic public ic lie officials and can then thea stir the tile gen gel general eral conscience c by b the tIme force of o the dis disclosure closure Of or this kind of o newspaper de dc detection there thero cannot bo ho too much