| Show NEWSPAPERS PJ NEWSPAPERS ND ND THE PUBLIC Writing Wrung to one of the large daily dall asked a rs a subscriber number of o questions are as follows Do newspapers havo haTO to the Does Docs a have o to please hIs bis customers Does the president of the United States have to please the citizens of the United States Does a man manhave manhave manhave have to please his friends family his bis neighbors How else do human Kuman beings get along In this world except by pleas pleas- pleasing ing lug other ollier men Martyrs It is true thie lose their lives because they fail tall to please their Imme imme- immediate immediate Immediate diate neighbors However martyrs die In the tho firm belief that they are doing something to please posterity or theIr God Newspapers cannot exist WIthout pleasing a sufficient number of readers to make fi- fi fi financial success a possibility l If they cant can't please this number then they dont don't exist Just as individuals If It they tall fail to please lease enough people to enable them to make nake a living some se- sometimes times starve starre However what Is so 50 dis- dis disgraceful disgraceful dis disgraceful graceful about pleasing the public If l It is an evil thing to please the common human beings being v nho aho ho make up the over over- overwhelming whelming mass of o this worlds world's population then what hope bope Is Ia lathere there in democracy v e hat bat hope for the future of the world And about this question of newspapers educating their readers Education Is a good thing the chief good thing In Inthe inthe the llie world Newspapers do edu edu- educate edu- edu educate educate cate their their readers They ex- ex expand expand ex expand the knowledge the Imag Imagination the understanding of men and women by giving them the raw Incidents of life They cant can't help belp educating In Inthis Inthis Inthis this way Newspapers educate in another way also By hIring specialists to write about the worlds world's events sharing their knowledge with readers But wise newspaper publishers do donot donot donot not assume that the public is ignorant and needs to be edu edu That's s foolishness People buy newspapers to get the news and to be entertained They want education also but they do not want It given to them in tn a schoolmaster stay ay Friends who try to instruct you time they meet you end by BORING BOEING yon you Newspapers must watch out tor for that And ADd A finally about Th The writer wishes to mow know why newspapers arent aren't more accurate Some people seem to think that newspapers go out of o the way TnY to distort the ti-SW ti They dont don't do that All city editors tell their reporters to 0 be accurate above all things They also aiO teU tell them to get a good story to Interest their readers Every human being telling a astory story tory does just those things Watch yourself when you tell a friend about the Incident you saw on the street this after after- afternoon afternoon noon noon about the order you got cot from ti-em a difficult customer You want to tell teU the truth you want to interest him It Ir that custom custom- customer er cr heard you yoa 00 telling the story about how bow you YO got the order he would say you were a liar A professor protessor of o psychology In Northwestern university tested his students by staging a quarrel quarrel quarrel rel In the Uie laboratory between two students A shot was fired and one ono student fell telL seven seven students In fifty testified they had seen a revolver But there the wasn't any revolver It was a banana and the shot was fired tired In the rear of the room Newspapers Newspapers are arc more seen seen- accurate accurate rate than that one reason be be- being beIng being ing that Inaccuracy makes ene ens- enemies mies for tor newspapers But as the riter of the letter said sald about newspapers they are written BY human beIngs ABOUT human beings FOR human beings |
