The Calumet news., 1912-09-07
SATURDAY,, SEPTEMBER ?, 1912.
1ng coPPsR couNTRY PREss.

THE COPPER COUNTRY PRESS.
The average reader of a newspaper
forms his own political conclusions
from what political matter he reads
in the news columns. wherein, If the
newspaper is fair. appear widely di-
vergent views of prominent members
OF leaders of the different parties, re-
ports Of conventions. speeches OF
candidates, attacks and counter-at-
tacxs and the whole propaganda of the
political world without the censoring
of single sentence, regardless of
what the subject matter is.
We doubt If newspapers can be
found anywhere that are more fair
and reasonable in this respect than
the copper country press. We believe
our readers win agree with us in this,
for they have had ample evidence Of
it. Any claim to the contrary is not
based on fact and is ridiculous to say
the least
The copper country English dailies
are members of the Associated Press,
which plays no favorites and is entire
" unbiased in its news reports. This
is the reason that the news of every
political party and candidates is pub
lished without the elimination of a
single item of Importance. II is the
reason. too, that Theodore Roosevelt
and the Progressive party have been
SO much in prominence in the news
columns, simply because the ex-presi-
dent appreciates the value Of public
ity. He knows that if he says or does
anything that can be construed as
news that the Associated Press whose
attitude on purely news matter he un-
derstands perfectly. will wire it TO
hundreds Of papers throughout the
country SO he makes il point TO
do or say something almost daily that
will attract attention. That he is the
best advertised man in the country
no one will doubt, and il is all done
without cost to him.
All Of this Roosevelt matter is print
ed in the copper country Associated /
Press dailies. A considerable part
OF the front pages Of these newspapers
are devoted each day to the Bull
Moose candidate and his political for
tunes. And in proportion to the
amount of space taken up by Roose-
Welt the publicity given President Taft
is pitiaoy small for the reason that the
president has eschewed politics for tn.
time and isn't doing anything poli,.
ically TO give him much notice.
Subsidized" is an ugly word and
is apt TO be used carelessly by
thoughtess persons A subsidized
press could be neither fair nor reasons
able IN printing the political news Of
the day. II would furnish its readers
with no facts with which to form con-
clusions contrary to its desires. 1t
would Print biased, distorted news reS
ports concerning the opposition, and
resort 10 every despicable means to
poison the minds of its readers We
have seen notable instances of this In
some Of the largest Roosevelt newspa-
pers ia the country They will not
print news favorable TO Taft.
II is notable, too, that the majority
OF newspapers editorially advocating
the reelection of the president are
fair 20 Roosevelt and his party that
they DO print the news OF the Pro.
gressiyes Just as it is received. In
fact they are giving Roosevelt a much
squarer deal than Taft is getting in
the average Roosevelt publication.
We submit TO our readers and ask
If what we have stated so far as their
observation goes is not correct