A more serious matter perhaps than the gloating over lurid details in which" some papers indulge—Jagter all, one need not buy them—is [the editing of news so as to convey the impression favoured by the proprietors. This change in Lor don papers strikes one on one return from long residence abroad more than any other. In by-gone days newspapers would report the facts, and particularly an oppon-lent's' speech impartially—and only go for the creature in their leading articles. But not now. In recent elections. where an orthodox [Conservative an Empire Crusader, a Liberal and a Labourite might be standing, it was necessary to buy three or' four papers to get a fair what they all said—and one could form no satisfactory impression of what the electors might thinking.
pect of India it is quite Impossible to frame. an_ accurate idea of what is" happening. One paper loves the Viceroy and magni fies the benefits of the agreement. ]with Gandhi tothe, skies, while it buries" every" incident which tells unfavourably against the agree: ment. Another paper, which anti-inwin, does exactly the opposite. What are'the public in England to think?
In France there is a law that if a public man canglers ne ban been obliged to' publish his eortection to Unfairly "reported the paper
the "same length as the original Jartitle and with equal. prominence. This Inw is said to we very sat fax ily ly. Tt looks as if we should n have to have the same sort of thing in England,
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