| Show ADOLPH S OCHS few miti men have contributed more to american journalism than adolph S ochs who died monday the new york times and the chattanooga times stand as magnificent monuments to his career mr ochs made a huge fortune with his newspaper properties far more important than this is the fact that he be exalted journalism to the highest ethical peak imaginable despite the sensationalists of the newspaper world who howled around him and who sought to capitalize on every human weakness in their mad desire to build circulation and more circulation mr ochs ignored tile sensational ests his idea always was to print a newspaper which contained all the c news ft to corint to tc have a news coverage which extended over the whole world and which was thorough accurate and honest and to speak his mind without partisanship in editorial columns on matters of public interest he adhered to this idea religiously circulation and advertis in volume followed as a matter of course there Is no way to estimate the influence exerted directly and indirectly by it has as been an enormous influence for good and history must record him as one of america s truly great men idaho statesman |
