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Library of Congress1945

Image 4 of The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser (Pascagoula, Miss.), October 12, 1945, (SECTION ONE)

1 To Keep A Free Press Free Recently the newspapers of tins country made annual observance of Newspaper Week and once again we looked on with interest and mixed feelings as one great journal after another and many a small one treated its readership to an editorial diet of sanctity and selfpraise We are proud of the free American press and would rather be a part of this business than any other But we cannot help regretting a maudling element in our business which seeps into the editorial pages oi ine nation on such occasions as News paper Week To get down to details one theme we do not like to see spread across these pages is the theme of selfcongratulation because wethe newspaper industry honestly report the news It is a newspapers implicit duty honestly to report the news No newspaper in America ex ists without its own slants and opinions and spe cial axes to grind whether these be on behalf of some ideal or on behalf of some very special and selfish interest But the tradition of a free press demands that the newspaper leave these slants and opinions to the editorial pages and that its newscolumns

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Library of Congress1909

Image 13 of The commonwealth (Greenwood, Miss.), December 17, 1909, (HOLIDAY EDITION, SECTION FOUR)

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE COMMONWEALTH Being handicapped by the seemingly impossible improbability of having oth era bring as into print we deem it not inappropriate and not an unpardonable imposition to exercise oar high pre rogative and relieve oar systems of a little history and dope that may per haps be of little interest to those inter ested in The Commonwealth and its management The Commonwealth is now enjoying its fourteenth year of newspaper life After having been established and con ducted by former Governor Jas K Vardaman for a number of years Hon F R Birdsall of Yazoo City pur chased the office and successfully ed ited same for three years Nearly five years ago the present management came into possession of the paper The Commonwealth now owns its home on Market street and is here to stay The Commonwealth greets its readers today with as comprehensive an edition of a newspaper as ever issued from a Green wood press and in that affirms Its primacy corresponding to the primacy of the city that it represents and re flects Iu rejecting this special edi tion we called it our Holiday Edition which title has been abundantly jus tified

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Library of Congress1921

Image 83 of The New York herald (New York, N.Y.), June 5, 1921, (SECTION SEVEN)

DAN RAL We cannot give up our only p not wish to drive us out of the chui By DAN CAREY Ni V there Is the case of Mr Edison for instance Just because he asks a few simple perfectly easy questions of a lot of schoolboys for the purpose of ascertaining if they have as much as an ordinary high school education before giving them jobs in his and spend the day asking each other whether he is right or wrong and if either why So far as we have been able to ascertain every one who has written anything upon the subject has taken the position that Mr Edison is wrong but no lucid reason has been given for such an attitude Clearly the time hits arrived for one of our best minds to come to the defence of the great inventor Our well known modesty withheld us front undertaking this task for several weeks in the vain hope that one of the others of us would say something in his behalf but their silence indicates that they are waiting for us to take the load and therefore we speak boldly In considering the questions asked by Mr

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