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Editorial Perspective
January 27, 1870 issue

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This article comments on issues related to newspapers. It has sometimes been thought by persons of a reforming turn of mind that a great improvement might be made in journalism by the omission from the columns of newspapers of all editorial discussion. If newspapers were confined strictly to their proper function of collecting and distributing the news of the day, it is highly probable that, as newspapers, they would be greatly improved; while the loss to the public of the lucubrations of the publicists and philosophers who discuss the topics of the day, in large type, on page 4, would not be very great.

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NEWSPAPERS; NEWSPAPERS -- Sections, columns, etc.; NEWSPAPER editors; REPORTERS & reporting; JOURNALISM; PUBLICITY
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