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Show Suggests Studying Newspapers Professor Edgar Dale, of Ohio State University, suggests that newspapers and periodicals offer wide opportunity for sound educational edu-cational development, but says that schools and colleges are nc-glecting them as teaching material. ma-terial. The professor has something, on doubt, and newspaper editors will promptly pat him on the back. We would not discount the educational development, but says the magazines and radio, b.ut it would require considerable intelligence to select the reading matter for study. As a newspaper man and editorial edi-torial writer, we appreciate the work of independent and thought ful writers. The press and radio offer many sources of information, informa-tion, much of it justiied by the term "authoritive." No one can overlook, however, the act that there are many irresponsible ir-responsible writers, the product of partisanship, self-interest and personal predudice. Unfortunately, Unfortunate-ly, no professional standards of prescribed training are necessary to develop a writer. Of course, the obvious reply to this objection is that the reader must be intelligent. This we readily grant but the profesor's suggestion was that newspapers be used in the educational process, proc-ess, designed to produce the intelligence in-telligence necessary to separate wheat from chaff. |