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Show Chain Newspapers Ths average leader of newspapers news-papers confines himself to not mere than two or three dailies. Very few realize the extent ot chain newspapers, although forty per cent of the daily curculation is provided by chain journals. Of the fifty-two newspapers Chains that of William Randolph Hearst is the largest, extending over the nation with ten morning and fifteen evening newspapers having an average daily circulation circula-tion of approximately four and one-half million copies. The only other really nationwide nation-wide chain is the Scripps-Howard group, with one morning and twenty-three evening papers, an average daily circulation of something some-thing over two million copies. Unlike Un-like the Hearst plan the Scripps-Howard Scripps-Howard newspapers are not sub jected zz so close a personal control con-trol as those of the larger chain. Like concentrated wealth the acquisition of preponderant control con-trol of sources of information represents rep-resents a potential menace to the thinking and freedom of the average av-erage citizen. Like wealth, such power can serve good purposes but the temptation and possibility of selfishness and errors of judgement, judge-ment, with resultant evils, must also be considered. |