Dishonest Journalism by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 20, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 21.

Dishonest Journalism.

By Editor

A book has been written by William Salisbury, entitled, "The Career of a Journalist," which, according to the New York Evening Post, quoted in the Literary Digest of April 25, does not present the highest standards of honesty among many of our daily purveyors of news. Editors have lists of firms and corporations against whom no word shall be uttered. Accurate, common-place news must be "fraternized," or dressed up. Items of interest and pathetic instances are manufactured out of whole cloth. A reporter who tells the simple facts must show a talent for ornamentation or get out. All of which shows, as many know, that we can not depend on all the papers say.