SIDELIGHTS ON THE CAPITALIST PRESS.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 55, 29 March 1912, Page 2

SIDELIGHTS ON THE CAPITALIST PRESS.

Tho following extr.i'ts aro limn ail article by Professor. Olisi-rles Zeublin in "The Twentieth Century Ma.ga/.ine,'' entitled "The Overfeed Cndulity of Newspaper Headers".: — "Tho average newspaper regards the truth with absolute iii<li(l'Mf-iice. "Tho newspaper is a, business institution, not an organ of education, and it must be made to pay, whether tho public taste and moral-, are debauched or not. "While nearly all papers are subject to the, advertiser, and especially truckle, to tho loading capitalists of tho community, there are many which are ga.ns owned by the corporations, and never, except till rough tho accidental blunder of a reporter, attempt to toll tho truth about those corporations and their allied interests. "Tho owners, and even the editors of most daily papers, by social affiliation with capitalist interests, are, naturally and siiweroly sympathetic with tho interests of capital, right or wrong. This extends to the coloring and even suppression of news by the Associated Press. Tho unscrupulous mendacity of corporation papers is known only to those, who are familiar with ncw3paperdom. "Tlio newspapers habitually misrepresent. There is something to withhold from the public; dust must be thrown in their eyes, and King becomes a , hitbit."