Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-08-01
It's News
To Me
By O. J. Pecod


reading how the Toledo Blade has at last decided to reform
and turn into reporting machine without suppressng slant
ing cooring the news?
Now there is a worth while REFORM that class
labor comn subscribe to without reaching for the bicar
We're all for that provided that the reform
begins at the top rather than at the bottom After all what
good does it to reporter supposng there
biased reporter the people who control the policy of
the still continue to want to play julius Caesar in hck
Believe me customers here's one guy claim
to being too objective How such thing be possible when
frequently happens must take typewriter in lap
tilt with the imported editorial jockeys from the Blade own
stable?
This is practically saying to others "you objective and
things exactly they But He'll I'll take iber
ties with the truth and twist its order and meaning to suit my
purpose"
Blade has exactly that for many
least of them you can't be objective belong to
anything else the Blade and its mighty pub
ANOTHER STORY
be possible for the Blade management to
tell of its reporters nov bud get on your horse and go
the city hall We you keep weather eye out for
schoonmaker Charlie Wez Ed DeAngeo and of
the administration crowd that we can pick on to embaass
you give it hm II Schoone clear desk let him
couldn't find something you asked him for And be to
ask for something you know he hasn't got
Nov get in there and pitch And remember want
get anywhere newspaper work learn how these
down by constant nagging Keep it in mind son. con-
slant drop of water will the hardest stone Schoon
maker must Get going and make plenty tough for
That of course is being objective with vengeance
just let publisher tell that things like that
don't get done Let why some
the light of day while others spashed all the front
page the newspaper publishers insist that their
porers high integrity the gathering writing and edit
ing opinion that they beat them the
force them to do things for living that must at
times scken of the higher class reporters.
Journalistic purity, customers of those things that
text books journalism and listen to when
publisher ratonazes before
of people the newspapers Office or perhaps before some
organizations banquet 1t theoretical the periodic law
chemical elements with this important difference the
periodic law is constantly in process of becoming reality
PHOOIE ON THE HOOIE
Newspapers in business They worse and pos
sbly any other kind of Like other
industry they out to cut the throas of any
who their hair particularly the hair disturberS
happen active in union, instrumental in
tracing begrudged dime from the companys profits
It's that simple
Perhaps the very simplicity in locating hidden dime
is what makes any attempt the part of the Blade or any
newspaper achieve Journalistic purity the thing
might somebody AS for out there
YOU should trouble discovering
the part of the management to achieve
adulerated journalism.
Phooie on hooie that the wants its reporters to
be simon pursts How the management expect anyone
its editorials to for like that in the light
positions has taken many subjects
And above ALL who of will forget the Blades
admission that it fought demagogy with demagogy at
the time of the payroll tax dispute?
Nor did the demogogy begin and in the editorial col
mns of the Blade 1t was present in of the news
articles which written reporters high integrity
poses
One thing certain the reporter who wrote { c
prior the payroll tax objective Can
the Blade management claim equal obecvy then now?
Our only consolation in the entire the Blade
is showing its hand quite plainly 1t telling Guild
poyes that would like to rid itself the whole thing and
the good old when the
lot of pang the back of its well and lots less
is its frequently empty pocket