Abstract

Plain Dealing with the Recorder

This article discusses the desired way of journalism acts and ethical aspects in context of publicly disputed matters and/or legal procedures. It suggests pattern of actions and responsibilities which the contemporaries have to present while dealing with legal investigation matters such as the McFarland case. It is advised that the daily contemporaries have not only to decide points of law as they arise in causes heard before you, or to charge the jury, or fix the punishment of criminals, but to preserve order in court. By preserving order in court is not meant the enforcing of good behavior on the part of the audience simply, but on the part of the bar, and especially of that portion of the bar which is engaged in the case on trial, on one side or other.