The "Newspaper World" London) of November 7 quotes with approval the agreement entered into between two Liverpool papers, the "Echo" and the "Express" to their reports of the proceedings in a certain unpalatable case half-a-column per day, It im Journalism. preserve
Thi (Gait a column) in the opinion of the "Newspaper, Wor Space for any paper to devote to ich with who ares onthe mental pictures of a newspaper One sincerely hopes that Liverpoot's example will spread to other centres. To those who can recall the old standards of English jour ism, the space devoted nowa: to prurient cases, divorce equrt te, even by Journals which would once have scorned. to touch such matter, is more than regrettable. The reflex action on public opinion, what ordinary men think of Journ-for purveying stut of this kind' even while they read. it, is shown when a newspaper comes into court with a libel action inst it and by the great difficulty it has in getting favour. able verdict, however good its case, Journalism "can be a. decent and honourable profession, but. there fare too many newspapers in all countries nowadays which seefh determined to present it as the exact, reverse; and although one ditikes the idea of legislation to say what shall or shall not be printed," unless Liverpool's example spreads Journalists may' well feel that, for the general repute of their trade, the sooner such legislation comes better.
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