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The Press Today: V. Standardizing the Daily
Villard, Oswald Garrison | June 4, 1930 issue

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Various causes have contributed to that standardization of the U.S. daily newspaper which is one of the most discouraging features of the press today. In the first place, the newspaperman is, what the children call a "copy-cat." He watches his rivals and more distant contemporaries like a hawk. If any one of them hits upon a single new feature, be it comic strip, or picture page, or cross-word puzzle, or advice to the unhappily wed, all the rest of them follow suit. Original ideas are scarce and they are not copyrighted.

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NEWSPAPERS; MASS media -- United States; COPYRIGHT; PRESS; COMIC books, strips, etc.; UNITED States
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