Newspapers Should Not Print Murderers' Confessions

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 16, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 16.

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Newspapers Should Not Print Murderers' Confessions

When a great daily newspaper gives its first page, invariably used for most important news, to a murderer's description of his revolting crimes, amounting to several over a score, it argues a depraved moral taste on the part of the publishers, or the public, who demand it, or both. It is simply revolting.