YELLOW NEWSPAPERS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1925, Page 1

YELLOW NEWSPAPERS

AX AM MU 1C A X IU.OT. “One hits to conic back to Xew Zealand alter a stnv in Ike I'nitcil State-* to appreciate New Zealand journalism.” said Mr A. A. Xattrass, who has recent Iv returned Irom Caliloruia. whore he went to investigate loading methods, to a Wellington reporter. ••There is nothing yellow about om daily papers here, and for that New Zealand may be very thankful. I need not mention particular papers, but one can look over page after page of these oreat city publications in the _ Mates ;,„d find them, tilled with nothing bm sensationalism. Now and again .one eomse across some outside nows but a little country paper m Xew Zealand cives as mucb international and solid news in one issue as these yellow jouiuals give in a month. ••Thov make heroes ot robbers. A ,drl who shot her mother when she was refused permission to go to a jazz, party was interviewed day after day as to her intentions as to earning aei livelihood when her ten years term of imprisonment had expired—paper expressing the opinion that t ten years would almost certa.nl> c reduced to one—bootleggeis exp o .s were enlarged upon, a hve- • voiced man gave genera! iuh.ee to dissatisfied men to keep on trying, a id so on. Gunmen, rum-runners, hank .oh-

lit.vq divorcees —heroes ail. !ii „ian from New Zealand cannot •help thinking after read ins American n ers for a time that a very great percentage of the,crime of the states, and there is no possible denial_°f th-1 crime, has been encouraged by >ellou journalism.”