Life — November 4, 1915 — page 50: what you’re looking at

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A Doubtful Reform HE first step in placing newspapers under government control is suggested by Mr. Talcott Williams of the Pulitzer School of Journalism, who thinks before young men are allowed to become reporters they should undergo a state examination. Under this scheme reporters, like chemists, will have to have diplomas and cer- tificates before they are allowed to compound their news prescriptions. Will this tend to make the newspapers more truthful? We do not know. But if it should have this tendency, ought it not to be regarded by our people with surprise and alarm? The principal mental stimulus and pleasure of millions is to surfeit themselves on news that is not so. And their appetites grow with what they feed on. If all this is to be changed, is not one of the boasted bulwarks of our civilization likely to be shattered? 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