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TRUTH IN JOURNALISM. HOW FAR DOES PERSONAL EMPHASIS CARRY ONEI

IS IT TRUE THAT ONLY A LIAR

SPEAKS THE TRUTH? -

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is on the whole above impeachment. But his selection and arrangement of the facts is personal and prejudiced. It may be thought that Macaulay is an extreme in- atates of the advocate writing history. But Thucydides and Gibbon also find in the story of events a mirror of their own Preponceptions.

EPIďkaMS CALORE,

The journalist," says Sir Charles Walston in a new book called Truth: an Essay Mural Reconstruction," "more than any other elnas of man, has helped

Great history, it seems, cannot be writ to lower and vitiate the sense of truth.

ten except within the restrictions" impos- We wish we could believe the rest of thee on it by a strong personality. * I'm- world came out of the comparison

partial historians have "set but di dif- relatively guiltless says the Suteanima

ferent Occasions to get the facts and It would be pleasant to think that barris nothing hot the facts. Alas, impartiality ters, digitais, politicians," clergymen,tou often turns out to be only nrother auctioneers, manufacturers, shopkeepers. naine for insensitiveness. The impartial philosophers, doctors, historians, civil historian, frequently tucks vision, and it is servants, and soldiers are all natural possible that one cait ses more with a dis-, seckers after Truth, who would form orted vision than with no vision, at all. bemselves into a leng procession at the "Love is thornet if truth" says the East- beels of George Washington if it were notern proveri. Is it conceivable that the for the misleading well-o-the-wisps of the journalists. Sir Charlis Walston, is only fair to say, does not saku, so rosy a view of human fiture as this. He does however, take a somewhat Tatarrate view

ideal history of England could

written

by a man who das indifferent to Eng- hand And yet to be a lover is to be

liar. It is to put a personal emphašis

ou things rather than to anticipate the

be that in history it is only a Tar who Tap spenk the truth At the make time he must love the truth and Rho in spite of himself. Great history is a pussinnate pursuit of truth by an unable to tell 1. Qrdinary history, is an indigestible

adding of truth and lies mixed together" |

sweetened according to thate,” And,

of journalism. With this we are not disadguint Bay. The conclusion seems to posed to quarrel. I we quarrel with him, it is because of has suggestion that the journalists have left the general Bense of truth are condition than they bound it, Does the ready, lieve that the average burupean has less lively sense of truth at the present day than he had, say, in the thirteenth or the sixteenth century, when there as if truth is not to be found in a pure state neither a Daily Milf nor a Daily News, ang the philosophers and historians. neither as net u Miwrchestre Gawe shall be still more at a loss if we turn dian, to entice him into errond Does he believe even that, 18 all the nispapers were suppressed timurros, Truth would Butter naked and unashamed into the vacua? Our experiences during the war incline us to doubt it. During the war the newspapers were practically suppress. ed as regards a considerable part of their work. The result was the popular- ization of a Series of myths beyond the do not suggest, however, that on dreams of the most sensational bewy- editor who ever swrated his soul out in Fleet Street, It was the general public not the svasational newspapers, that in vented the train-loads of Russian soldiers wpapere mãe the distorine, is being tuc

through England and the she when u speak at "truth, even

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un their can children with their tuo 11 tælles i torbe suposable.

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hands cut of. The journalists may DUS- sibly claim a limb or so of the Belghin child as their own, but the Russians crer: During the war or a strike this

bends sprang full-armed from the many

ever.

When a strike carried to extreme. of the many headed long before

"occurs i brus.ountry, it is usually all! they were mentioned in a newspaper- This is not to absolve journalism front possible to find out what the men its many sins. We suggest, however, that are striking fur. Had it now been for there is some reason for pausing before the tol Commission, the renders of the putting our signature to the belief that majority of the papers would have journalism has turned a world of honestben left with the idea that the miners men into a world of Hars.

were an unreasonable, greedy, and anti social class of men., Toere is too little or the spirit of inquiry in the newspaper

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FACTS ABOUT THE PEBLIC ..

It is chidy owing to the journalist,"offices. How many newspapers nave even says Sir Charles Walston,

that taken the trouble to find out what Bul- people will, no longer read books, which, shevism is, or what Sinn Fein is What In most cases. are the only avenues to

, the Bolshevist theory of government? sand and beneficent education and to

To what extent are the crimes committed the realization of Truth." , 4I That is by Bolsheviks the sort of crimes ar statement which seems to us 10" suzgest uitted by Russian parti in genera!!

largely false view of the older world

bese are simple questions to which we The den that the public was once a book-loving public will bear examination and a simple answer in a news. hardly better than the idea that it waspaper What the propertied classes want once a truth-loving public. Nor were the s not an understanding of Bolshevism books that were, read in the old days for but a denunciation of it. want of newspapers al

The atrocities committed by the Bolsheviks they "dwell

to the realization of Truth." The book as a shining sud among facts; the

atricities committed by the enemies of the Bolsheviks, they take no more noties of than a dark-star. The Press, by its lack of inquisitiveness. into simple facts, allows the public to base its opinions

and the pamphlet were used by the Father of Lics as instruments of error as bril liantly

as the most inventive of the daily papers. What

sea serpent of our day's can compare with the fabulous monsters of which Sir John Mandeville wrote in his book? What special. commissionerith regard to too many inatters on sen- sational irrelevancies. The distorted story had ever so many sensations to recount

Giraldas Cambrensis!

af an attority on the other side is usually It is not i ચન્ન.. sensational newspapers, but in grave and given far more space than the principle learned volumes that we shall find a dí involved in the quarrel. It was a, bow- russian of such subjects as whether goats ever before ucáspapers existed. blond dissolves, diamonds and whether Adam had or had a navel. A history human error would take us back some thousands of years before the birth of the Grst journalist. (ain was the first liar, and he had never read a newspaper in

of

bis, lite.

WHAT IS TRUTH?

THE DUTY OF THE PRESS,, Every newspaper, for instance, is, in cur opinion, hound in honour not to suppress facts of great public interest werely because they conflict with editorial prejudices. The suppression of the Bul shevik wireless message about Koltchak's There seems to be as much to be said. defeat the other day by two great London then, for the theory that it is the public newspapers was a flagrant instance of the We are that lowers the sense of truth' of the degradation of journalism. newspapers as for the theory that it is aware that every newspaper has to make the newspapers that lower the sense of a selection of its new, and that this truth of the pudited with a disin-licensed victuallers' paper will naturally We doubt if any can hardly be done without bias. All

newspaper can be

terested love of lying. As a rule, it

it does

give prominence to a speech on the whisky

no more than give the public she lies the question; a temperance paper will prefer public wants. The majority of men, are the

servants of prejudice rather than the servants of truth. Even the philosophers have been accused of tem out of their

The philosophy of ersonal

Pessimism is,

sys-

ra give it space to speech by Mr. Selection of this kind is not Leif Jones. dishonest. It is not a deliberate falsi-i

The fication of contemporary history.

inal newspaper that falsifies the day's bistory,|

ing to this theory, but wind from iL sour be its purpose in doing so as noble aa steinach: the philosophted meal.

of optimism is can be, is committing an act at once We dishonourable and dangerous. The poli

are

smile after a should

pot care to subscribe to a doctrine tical opinions of men and women so mechanical, But it can hardly be formed largely by what they read in the questioned that the love of truth even of newspapers more, perhaps, by what they a philosopher is limited in a score of read in the news' columns even than by „£200 · directions by his temperament, His up- the leading articles. The only thing that

bringing and his material ercumstances.

will ensure sanity and intelligence in Hetas no means of plunging into the absolute truth any more than the rest public opinion is a fresh stream of facts of us.

He is a blind man dealing in constantly poured into the minds of the guesses. He describes an ocean that he people through the channels of the Press. has never seen and that he knows only if the stream of Inets is not kept pare, by the sound of its waters falling upon we shall have a people of muddled minde an unattainable shore. It is no wonder and foolish purposes. The newspaper that one philosopher (differs from an should be as intent upon discovering facts other in his tales. However great his as a chemist in a laboratory. A fact in passion for the truth, he is a man lost in politics is not unfortunately so definite the wilderness of error. He may utter end indubitable a thing as a fact in a truth, but the very accent in which baboratory. Still, facts are usually, dis

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