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Show H NEWS VALUES. A GREAT deal Is being said In this campaign regarding the re- 1 fusal of the daily papers of B Utah to give a fair presentation of the H news. The editor of one of the papers H was asked why his paper did not pub- H lish the formal statement of the Pro- M gressive leader in this state that B Roosevelt would carry Utah. H "Why, that Isn't news," he replied. H "That's merely an Insane guess of a Bfl man who doesn't know what he is H talking about." B The very next morning the same Hi paper smeared its front page with BB the statement of Senator Smoot that B Taft would be reelected. B Of course, that IS news. B If it is printed for a fact In Novem- B ber it will be most unusual news. t But the real reason behind the fail- B ure of most of the big dailies of the Bj country to be fair to the Progressive B party, and the reason for the garbled, B doctored accounts spread over the B west by the Associated Press, is that B the newspaper trust is merely holding Bl up its end of the agreement to back Bj Taft for his efforts to procure, through B reciprocity, freo wood pulp from Can- B: ada |