Bisbee daily review., 1910-12-04

citizen Therefore l have no new thing to say on the proposition sub mitted. that of eliminating topics of crime and scandal from current news. In my judgement it can be done not only without loss, but with positive gain in every respect"
 Louis T Goldng. publisher St. Joseph, Mo. NewsLPress: Tt IS en- trely possible to reduce the amount of space devoted to criminal topics but it will never be poss ble to en- tirey eliminate such topics so long as vice and CT me exist"
 John D. Jackson. publisher New believe that there IS no justification for the publication of scandal in cur rent news unless the scandal is of a nature involving the public inter ests. By that l mean that private scandal should be a iminatec> but scandal n connection wth pull affars should not As to the pub ica ton of crime the policy of the Reg 1ter, which has lbeen estab'isflr' by ne, has been not to publish the details of a crime but to regard the pub fcation of a crime itself as a deterrent to wrong dong in the com munty. I believe the publicity which the newspapers press of the country given to wrong doing in all its forms has the distinct effect of rasing the public morality and re- press ng possible wrong doing"
 H. c. Pimly, Manager Fargo N. D Forum As long as crime is commit ted items concerning such occurr- ences should have some place in the news of the day. There should however, be curtailnent from the present custom of publish ng all de. tals and pandering to morb d taste The tendency has grown altogether too rapidly to give salacious accounts of scandals and revolting crimes The public is in some measure to b'ane for this custom, because of the large patronage which papers have received wh oh fill the,r col umns with scare head, nes exploit ng news. I believe however, the time has arrived then the public ] will cooperate with conservative publishers to secure saner news i pages"
 R chmondL Va, News Leader. This paper del berately tries to encouraging and helpful news items and to play down scandal and crime"
 Noble T. Praigg. Ed tor Portland. nd. CommercialReview: "So insid. ously has the pubic been educated Q look for crime and scandal re 5vitals in 'ts daily newspaper a sudden change to a markedly con tone would be tnjur OTs 10 the circulation and, through thei advertising channel. resultant of | great financial iOss to publishers T speak purely from the latter stand | point Ut the change can be effected.
 Eight readers out of ten become , such pure,y for the sake of nforma- l tion. Poit cs. publ affairs. happen ings affecting their own or other countries and, coming closer home. 1 civic affairsi business development and isoe al happenings-these are the leg tamate news attract ons. | Divorce, crime, suc de and hearsay scandal are so4ely supplementary l and occupy but the passing moment i for the average intelligent reader l Supplementaries can always be elim- a.S l lc-F ~l prncipIe, and by as careful censor ship of news as Is exercised over advertising, the news scheme can be diverted. Psychologists have shown that crime news has CT minal effect on undeveloped m nds; suicide recitals lead to followers of exampie 1 would never argue, to exclude these happen ngs for they belong In the field of news, but I would emphatical- i, iy advocate conservative treatment. l The yellow tinge in such stories arsese purely from compet ton. If my competitors refused to publish the letters from a vorce applicant | to her lover l would never send photographers and reporters to the
  country place where they met cland- | est-neiy but with one angle made pubic by my competitors, it is up to me to find another, and with exped- tion because readers are looking for 1t, have been educated to look for it | Co-operat on in the publishing field Can el m nate the obnoxious details. | A binding agreement to avoid them would be difficult to follow for some ume inasmuch as editorial depart ments are now keyed to that string. | at the change would eventually come just as { has been made to the present standard. Mutual agreement 10 let the highly sensational alone and set ng a measure of what con siftrtss the highly sensational is the only solution toward eliminating crime and scandal from the news columnssr
 Charles NJ Day Editor Sioux Falls s. D., ArgusLeader: T am afraid that Mir. Dooley was right when he