Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-09
SOME CRIMES OF HEARST
JOURNALISM

STUDY by our readers of the adj
~ vertising columns of last Sundays
Examiner will show them. better
than any words of ours can, the utterly
heartless, dishonest and contemplate
character of Hearst journalism.
There were carried in the columns of
last Sundays Examiner seventeen ad-
vertisements of clairvoyants and for
tune tellers. occupying over two col
umns. These people have been refused
the columns of The Herald over and
over again, although they have offered
rates largely above the usual advertis-
ing rates of this paper for space in its
columns. They represent the very
lowest order of the advertising faker-
people who make their living out of
obtaining money from the ignorance of
others under false pretenses. No self
respecting journal will carry this sort
of business. and no Los Angeles daily
paper does carry it except the Hearst
organ.
In the same paper occurred thirteen
fake medical advertisements, occupying
seven columns, or one page, of space
Some of these advertisements are
couched in language which ought to
bar them from every clean home, and
which make them eminently unfit read
ing for the young. People who know
anything about the sort of takers who
advertise in the Examiner understand
that they are responsible for the ruin
ing of many people, especially young
men. No fate more pitiable can be
imagined than that of a person who
once comes thoroughly under the con-
troll of these human vultures that prey
upon the fears and misfortunes Of
mankind, and particularly of that por-
tion of mankind, the ignorant, who are
least able to take care of themselves.
One of these advertisers who occupies a
large space in the Examiner, some time
ago offered his wretched stuff to The Her
aid at a rate larger than our usual rate
He was told that if he would pay five
dollars a line he could not get his stuff
in the columns of The Herald.
Another one of these human vultures
who offers to cure cancer says: ANY
body six months is cancer"
Imagine the terror which this sort of
a statement will produce in the mind
of an ignorant man or woman who may
be suffering from some simple sore
which would easily yield to proper
One of the Examiner advertisers also
says: Cancer in woman's breast be-
gins with small lump, and if neglected
1t always poisons deep in the armpit
and proves fatal quickly"
Some time ago a faker of this kind Of
fered similar advertisement TO The Her
aid. He was told that for all the money |
that was ever coined The Herald would
not accept advertisement whose false !
statements would undoubtedly bring un-
happiness to many of its readers, whose
lack of information would prevent them |
from understanding the false and fraudu-
lent character of such declarations.
The same greed for money from any |
source, it makes no difference how cor |
rupt, which induces the local Hearst !
organ to- Saccept advertisements of this |
character also leads to the San Fran |
cisco Hearst paper accepting lottery |
advertisements against the laws of the
United States. OF course the United |
states can only enforce this law where
papers containing these advertisements
are mailed, and the Hearst journal is
mighty careful to see that its papers
these advertisements do not
get in the mail. We believe it is the
)nly paper in San Francisco accepting
his sort of business.
And this is the kind of newspaper
hat is urging crusade against prize
light pictures. after it has done every
hing it could to corrupt and contain
nate the community by filing its col
imns with the most lurid descriptions
and photographs Of the Reno disgrace,
md staging that occurrence in a ring
on a public street in front of the
premises from which its fake sheet |
ssues in this city.
A daily newspaper such as Mr..
Hearst puts out in the communities
which have the evil distinction of being |
served by his journals is a constant
menace to decency, morality, health |
and everything that man should hold !
most dear and in highest respect.