Judge, 1932-01-23 · page 3 of 36
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# "Judging the News" - January 20, 1932 The main cartoon satirizes newsreel companies' sensationalism during the Great Depression. A film crew from "The Talkie Newsreel Co." attempts to film a patient at Samson Hospital, seeking someone with a "hiccoughing record" to break—prioritizing entertainment value over genuine news. The accompanying editorial column (top) comments on economic hardships: speakeasy raids in New York, Post Office deficits, divorce during depression, New Year's celebrations being muted due to hard times, and anticipated sales taxes. The cartoon mocks how 1930s newsreels exploited human suffering and oddities for entertainment rather than informing the public about serious economic conditions. It critiques the trivial priorities of commercial media during genuine national crisis.
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©cis 141976 Jick Snurreworm, Editor Grorce Jeas Narias Ricitaro J. Warsit Sipsey S. Lexz, Contributing Editors JUDGING THE NEWS Greaneasy raiders in New York have been ordered to cart) away the fixtures. If the order is taken literally many a wife will wait dinner on her husband only to find he has been confiscated. [eratty on New Years they cele- brate by ringing out the old. But 1931 was the only one we ever heard hissed out. THE TALKIE NEWSREEL WW wonder just what caused that tremendous deficit. in the Post Ottice Department? ‘They certainly never spent all that money buying new pens. A FRIEND boss's da ours is divorcing his ghter—he says he'll be hanged if he's going to support her and her father’s business during the rest of the depression. “We want to see the patient who is breaking the hiccoughing record.” Wt leaders are confident that this country will see the return of the saloon within the next. three But so far, no one has mac as to when the years, any pre- banks will dictions return, . Les taxes, we read, are So it won't be long before every part of the citizen will be taxed ex- cept his squeal. coming. SAMSON HOSPITAL SITING HOURS 1-4 PM, ctume 103, iSe a copy. " Published w ){Sticast asch Street. New Yor ee Gtats treamuret: Joseph T Cocos, Secres te 3UDM No. 2621, January 23, jor IN Bast €sth Street, New Y protected under the prov ton at Was Copyrighted 19 1 reat iritaln: Fred te Hogan, attention ts called to the fai of Section Sof the Copyright Law of tbe L. Ftered as Seoghid-Clame Matter. September 1%. 1621, at the Post Omee at Dunellen. N. 3. under act ot March 3 ly by Judge Publ bitea i