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Show JAMES KEELEY ON NEWSPAPER ETHICS President of Chicago Tribune Co. Gives Hit Idea of a Newspaper's Duty to the Public Seattle, Jan. 15. A paper read today to-day before the Newspaper Institute at the university of Washington, contributed con-tributed by James Keelcy, prest. of the Chicago Tribune company, said that the chief development of the modern newspaper was to bo along the lines of personal service. On the subject of newspaper ethics eth-ics Mr. Kecley expressed tho opinion that "suprcs8lon of news Is more of a wrong than printing of a piece of news that might better havo not been written. Ily Improper suppression suppres-sion of news a newspaper sells Its soul and betrays Its readers. To my mind it is the high treason of Journalism. Jour-nalism. "It Is nt times a difficult position In which to be placed," Mr. Keeloy added, "to know that broken heartH will follow the publication of a certain cer-tain piece of news, but tho edtltor's larger duty Is to the community. As a general ran not mako wnr without making widows anil orphans so an editor can not do his whole duty without causing tears to flow. A newspaper has fixed duty to Its readers. read-ers. When It Issues a paper It enters en-ters Into an Implied contract with thoso who purchase tho paper to tup-ply tup-ply them with all the news." |
