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Show The Daily Prtsa. The dally prees. as I look at It, is a wonderful detective. It can ma down pnhlle opinion sad report It mar-slonaly. mar-slonaly. In this respect H has an ver-wldanlng outlook. As a news-(atherer, news-(atherer, lu facilities perpetnslly astonish as-tonish me. The weapon of publicity It often wields with undoubted power. But. when all la said, it la much more than a gigantic reporter? Doea It really real-ly Instruct and guide? Or doea It simply sim-ply furnish by the myrtsd page the tuff out of which the people con-ititict con-ititict their own Independent ludg-sient? ludg-sient? I confess that newspapers teem to ma more and more to exam-plify exam-plify Gladstone's definition of the orator ora-tor they receive from the public aa silst whst they give back as ahower." -From Hollo Ogdeu's "The Making of I'ubllc Opinion" in the Century. |