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Show DIFFERENCE IN NEWSPAPERS There is an American newspaper called the American Pre?s published at Shanghai, China, and it charged recently that the Reuters News Service, and English news gathering agency, has sup-nressed sup-nressed important news from America regarding China. Specifically Specifical-ly the charge is made that Reuter's, which is the principal source of outside news in China, has suppressed passages from the speeches of Presiden Coolidge and Secretary Kellog which disclosed the American policy toward China, and which might affect public opinion opin-ion there. The Chicago Tribune very properly points out editorially that "America is the only country in the world whose newspapers and news agencies send reporters) out to find out the truth." In Europe, as the Tribune points out, the newspapers are not newspapers so much as party organs. They colorl the news to suit their own policies, leave out news which might hurt their policies, and emphasize that calculating to help them. If American newspapers news-papers were run on this policy those against thei world court would not print a line of the arguments made for it, or even admit that it might be successful in the Senate, while newspapers supporting it would ignore entirely the speeches of men like Senators Borah, Johnson, Reed and Moses. "English newspapers are little better, although a great many Americans pretend to think the London press incomparable. The solider of the London papers are superbly edited but they tell the story they want to tell. For example, the America they depict is the America of crime, divorce, money madness, and the movies. You might read them for al month and never guess there is a factory in our country or a learned man." It is now the object of all reputable American newspapers to print the news columns, so far as possible without bias. They are run as newspapers and not as adjuncts to. the majority or minority party of the governmnt. Partisian ' comment is reserved for the ditorial page. In Europe the reserve is true and the great American newspapers news-papers found that in order to get ral European news they must maintain American offices in the European capitals. It is expensive, expen-sive, but that, is why they do it. Otherwise we would never know what is really going on in Europe. |