The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-07-06
The Cherry
" Where with our
roe Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
foundly, sometimes fippantIy,
sometimes recklessly.

Both political conventions are over
and many millions of words have
been poured over the wires and out
| through the air to tell the multitudes
| all about what happened and all about
what didn't happen.
Radio announcers and trained seals
| have done their utmost to get out of
the big conventions the last possible
ounce of revenue. The public has been
used as target for views, opinions,
guesses AMI hokum.
More money than ever before was
spent by newspapers and syndicates
on these two conventions. Writers by
the score were employed to write
about them. Every publicity hound
was on the job.
Columns and pages were printed
and most of them were read by almost
nobody. Where this insanity will end
cannot be foretold, but anyway there
are those who contend that it was the
very bulk of the dinosaurs that finally
put that beast in the extinct class.
If, with candidates and platforms
before US, it takes hundred ''inter-
pretive" writer's and dopesters to tell
US what political party means, then
there is either something rotten with
politics or something idiotic about
those that think we need to have it
| thus "expertly" explained.
More and more Americans are COM
ing to believe that the whole game is
| loaded with bunk, deception, double
dealing and chicanery and nothing is
doing more to force home that belief
than the trained seal tribe that writes
pieces for the papers at all they can
get per word.
| 1t ought not require horde of ex-
perts to tell the waiting multitude
what the parties mean about prohibi-
tion, 1t ought not require circus
parade to tell us what the parties
mean in relation to the injunction is
sue. But we are told, just the same
and almost no two Of the expert"
observers agree. They agree in about
the same percentage that insanity ex-
perts agree in murder trial
American newspapers have nowhere
fallen down quite SO hard, quite with
such complete abandon, as in their loss
of perspective. They have got so un-
balanced that the relative importance
of news events has been completely
lost.
Three men recently were executed
for murder. Two were moronS and
the third may have been. This exc
cution got almost as much space in
local newspapers of the city where it
took place as either of the big con-
ventions and the conventions got as
much space each day as was given
the Armistice. Where has balance
gone? Blithering Mysteries replaces
Judgment, and the American press be-
comes our best example of lunacy.
Meanwhile the ballyhoo goes on
The one commendable feature of it all
is that lot of writing men are max
ing more money than they used tc
make. Outside of that, not much is
lgained.
/ Real reporting is becoming a lost
lart. Real reporting means the get
Iting and conveying of accurate infor-
Imation. 1t has been largely replaced
be the II think" and Uniformed per.
,sons believe" type of so-called jour.
; nalism.
j Wise-crackers have replaced report.
ers. The public is the goat. The fiooe
of nonsense, guesswork and fiddle
) dee-dee reached it's crest in the tvs
national political conventions. Wage
earners, sick with the mess of it, will
unless there is a curb, yet be fount
taking their piles of daily papers int
! the streets and burning them in re
sentiment.
Politics and newspapers both fac,
an inevitable day of atonement-or ;
day of reckoning. 1t is not easy t,
know which deserves the harshes
Judgment. "A plague on both your
houses" is the thought in man.
minds.
The average American is an homes
man. Why does the average Ameri
can so supinely tolerate so mucI
blatant dishonesty?