Most people pick up the newspaper to get the news.
But they always get more than just that. When you pick up a paper, you pick up the editor s attitudes. To the average reader, these attitudes may be almost invisible. But they are not as obscure in historical newspapers, according to an article in the summer 1999 Utah Historical Quarterly. The early twentieth century newspapers of the Four Corners region, for example, show an obvious bias in favor of Navajos and against Utes and Paiutes.