The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-28
WILL DENOUNCE
YELLOW PRESS
IN AN ADDRESS
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1890 O'Clock one night and presented
a proof of the article printed in the
World" the next day as version of
the Kaiser interview. | glanced at it
and saw at once that it was a fake
I said to the reporter:
OF course, this is the most arrant
rubbish-pure invention-an absolute
fake. You know it is, don't your
The reporter grinned and said that
they had been told to get up story,
and this was it. One guess was as
good as another, anyway. This story
had been written. and Mr.. Van Hamm
had sent him up to see what Mr. Hale
would say about it.
Il said: Well, give my compli-
ments to Mr.. Van Hamm, and tell him
| say | hope he won't make fool of
himself by printing a story as wild as
this. 1t is fake from beginning to
end Having the proof and a pencil
in my hand | wrote on the margin:
Dear Mr. Van Hamm: This is all
wrong. w. B. H
Il then glanced at the matter of the
proof again, and said: Why, the frame
you have put around it is as far away
from the truth as anything can be.
| This statement that the Century" ar
| ticle had been submitted to Mcclure S
| for instance, is absurd. The inter
view you have here with Mr. Haggard
| is, of course, an invention. He never
said it.
Denied Whole Story.
LAS | said this | wrote the word
False opposite the alleged statement
from Mr. Haggard. / then mentioned
two or three other respects in which
the details accompanying the story
were false.
When my eye was caught by the
name of Baron Won Sternburg, l said
Please be decent enough not to drag
in the name of a dead man. AS a mat
ter Of fact, never laid eyes on Baror
Sternburg in my life
But, said, the whole thing is sc
absurd and so far from the truth thai
it hardly deserves denial. l don't be
leve Mr.. Van Hamm will print 1t, bu
if he does, you must say from me tina
l denounce it as absolute rubbish. Yot
cant make my denial of the whole
thing too strong. 1t is pure fake
as you know"
The World" not only suppressed
Mr.. Hales denial, but reproduced thu
proof so changed as to make it appea
tina the words This is all wrong" ap
piled to but a single paragraph ant
declared that Mr.. Hale had approved
all the rest.
There is strong reaction agains
this kind of journalism, said Mr.. Hall
yesterday. A great reactionary wav'
is spreading over the country in pre-
test against the methods and the new
matter of the sensational dailies. II
New York in the last few years Their
: has been particular disguest at tn
, stories which the newspapers hav
printed concerning the Thaw case an
the like. A murder trial, with man
ugly features-the Haines case-is &C
ing on now. The Civic Forum of Ney
York has started movement agains
the sensational treatment which Of
; tends against the sensibilities Of dc
cency of most people. This Is an Of
: ganization composed of some of tn
: most Influential and public spirite
men in New York"
) Hale on Journalism.
A public meeting will be held i
5 the Hudson theater, New York, o
, Saturday, to listen to Mr.. Hale max
, an address on Decent Journalism"
3 What will you have to say abou
: the world" Dr. Hale was asked.
t He smiled, Il was just worie1M
: whether anything more need be sal
about the world" now that Presider
Roosevelt has expressed himself o
, the subject"
: Mr.. Hale leaves tomorrow for Wasl
/ ington and New York. He sails o
JAN 6 to spend some time in Europ