The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1907-05-10
tainted NEWS service
CROOKED METHODS EMPLOYED BY SPECIAL in
TERESTS TO SECURE PUBLICITY.

Newspaper publishers have long recognized and of them
have refused publish what Golfers Weekly calls tainted news
pretended dispatches containing alleged interviews action of COM
merca bodies arguments conveyed by plausible medium IN
syndicate corporation
of the privileged and pndering Interests There
years ago many such articles in the interest of of the
New York Life insurance companies open fair Advertising but
audaon and misrepresentation disguised regular news matter
says the Portland Journal
Laey mails with this tainted news
stuff principally articles made up appear pure oppos
public ownership of utilities government ownership
regulation of railroads The Journal in the last has
consigned the basket carloads of this literature,
by the Interests and gotten up appear with regular
date line and narratng supposed but really fictitious distorted
occurrence.
This tainted news apparently by
agencies of the Interests with headquarters New York Bos
They try conceal their character and purpose from
publishers and impose manyor else there business
rangenent publication the stuff These agencies
aurng names-the Publicity Bureau the Press
Service Company" the National News Service Industrial Sta
ltisc Specialists relation consumers and but they
all merely hired agents of the pndering and puoat
teres which thus manage get good deal Of tainted news
before the public and influence public sentiment
The railroads should be bigger and decent business than
this of manufacturing tainted news but they have been in it for
months past up their nec 1t the shape of supposed
dispatch relating alleged of body
interview with pancpedictng nancier In
partly genuine but the incidents have been worked up
especially for the purpose of manufacturing this news Thus people
great deal Of stuff narratng what the surface
genuine reasonable opposition control Of
railroads. regulation and municipal ownership of public
utilities Systematically manufactured for public
consumption the literary bureaus of the railroads and other
porae and syndicated interests
Some of this tainted" founded hatruhs of
up whole CLOTH and of it is in the shape
of arguments literary efforts evidently paid for The huorist
John Bangs instance be paid quite price,
be- such prostitution of his considerable literary talent
Golfers says:
railroads. just about years ago, foaw the be-
ginning that tide of public clamo against them which just
very founanhead They proposed spread throughout the
United States newspaper propaganda against rate legislation The
railroads took this enterprise very seriously They went about
oroughnes the order and system characteristic of rail
road administration Individual railroads assessed for large
contributions, aggregatng million dollars.
Offices were established in Boston, New York Washington, Chi
cago and many cities In Chicago 40 employed
Agents found in town where newspaper
was published standing and leanngs Some of the
reports amusing One has had favors from
the c. P The policy Of another directed by Senator
Gamble Senator Kedge had secured the appointment OF son
of another Annapolis Another would sell his soul for
money Natural born Ishmaeite Envious Quarrelsome Of
another: "Rich ~ College bred Wants go congress
The hobbies God the Bible and Sunday school,
Another Controlled by local banker who be
and then some"
Having found all the EDITORS the publicity bureaus
and tainted shops got busy supplying the assortment of stuff
that likely suit 1t nice, readable dope, catchy
and rather interesting innocent but always concealed
matter the real stuff opposition to the rate
BILL to state regulation municipal control the LaFoete
amendments tariff reduction and Dakota farmers read
that rate regulation quintupe freight In the South
the cotton planters would community
was doped record Nebraska showed that
in one week in June year the newspapers printed 212 columns
favor OF government regulation and against their
real sentiments later after the tainted bureaus
got well into action there week 202 columns against
government regulation and only two fayorng 1t ls was 'e
tainted news
Newspapers throughout the country should be on their guard
against this dope and aside they would poison
That is in fact what isu unng designed poison popu-
lar opinion through the newspapers