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for days if they handle it right.

I also thought that they are ignorant. As I read the press from the small town areas, I realized that what they had read themselves as young and growing people was what had formed their taste. I don't think we realize the extent to which what had been a revolutionary move in the world of the daily paper - the Hearst sensationalism - had affected the younger generation. There was that preoccupation with the purely personal items and personal news, rather than real news. That had affected the newspapers of the smaller or more remote communities. It didn't appear to have affected the New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, or other great city dailies, except those papers that were definitely Hearst papers. They had their own line of sensationalism and news about individuals, whether the individual was of any consequence or not. If anyone had a fight with the man in the next block, that was news and it could be carried on for days with speculation about this, that or the other. Whereas, a reputable newspaper might print a two or three line squib if he killed the man be had a fight with, but they might not unless there was some peculiar distinction to one of the parties, or unless the fight was a matter that was a matter of common interest. Otherwise it would hardly be recorded in a great metropolitan daily.