Cardinal Logue

New Zealand Tablet, 16 July 1908, Page 9

Cardinal Logue

Sir Thomas More once said that in the ' reformer ' Tyndale's writings ' the lies come in by lumps.' Language cf equal emphasis might legitimately be used in regard to the methods by which the American ' yellow ' journalist evolves

* interviews ' with notabilities out of his own inner consciousness. Cardinal Logue, however, let down with gentler speech the imaginative varlet who fathered upon him the bogus ' interview ' that raised some of our daily papers to sufficiently high temperatures to make their fire insurance policies perilously near being due. ' One thing,' says the Cardinal, with the gentlest sarcasm, ' that particularly impresses me is the maimer in which the newspapers handle the news. The method observed by big metropolitan journals is wonderful! They seem to. get the news in some mysterious manner without bothering the principals ! Why, the second day of my visit to this country 1 picked up a newspaper and found a long interview which I had given to a reporter. I could not remember giving the interview, but I suppose the reporter knew what he was writing about.'