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Show Menace to Journalism in Commercialism of the Press of the Nation By DON C. SEITZ, Outlook Editorial Staff. j ! pJ IKIKIXO the popular c!ioril has boix-me one of the menaces in joi:nnin.:-:i. Jiip; interests buy up groups of papers, and they are J JVI run atordin to a formula. Commercialism has come into play by which newspapers are captured raid submersed. No woman will buy anything nor, unlea she sees it widely alvertisol in the papers. , 'I his condition do s not dominate the proper in morals, but it puts upon its physical fide such a load that the intellectual side becomes smaller, lhc $u!;).iorg..-mt of the daily press and the eeual leanness of the cultural press mark a diiTcriit path. The press lias no moans of reaching the vacant mind, unless you make it feel that there is something higher than the baseball score to read, and that the age you live in is always the golden age. The only real criticism that prevails in America today is that we are too slow. livery precaution has been taken to reduce thinking to its lowest. We have become a nation of button pushers, and we forget that under all this convenience is a vast servitude. The public relies upon the clergyman, the teacher and the editor to do the thinking it won't do. The editor has the most difficult tasks in some respects., IIo has to coax subscribers, entertain them by nil kinds of things, and he does this frequently fre-quently in the dark. The cultural publication has to reach a public widely scattered, but it is the saving grace in the making of American journalism. |
