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Show w READERS CRAVE FOR IT "Most of it is newspaper talk," How many times have you heard that remark made about some piece of scandal or other "juicy" item you have read in one of the big city dally papers? says W. W. Barber. There is plenty of justification for the remark. It is quite true. Practically everything of the kind that gets into at least some of the big newspapers is doctored and colored col-ored to make it more appealing to the animal side of human nature. But for this the editors are not alone open to criticism. It is what the public demands. And that reminds us that size and circulation are not the only points of difference between the home town naper and the big city daily. The home town editor must confine con-fine himself to facts. It he distorts his news matter he is soon classed by the public as a plain prevaricator and that ends his usefulness in that town. If the big city daily enn'mes itself to facts, without doctoring or coloring color-ing of any kind, it is regarded by the great majority of its reader? as too slow for this rapidly novice age. It is a failure, because it is tot popular it is not what its readers want. Times was when we took many of these lurid newspaper ffc ies with a grain of salt, but hot : i use it by the barrel. We don't know what to bel'eve. |