PUBLICITY OF CRIME
Women, particularly, aro apt to deplore newspaper reports of hideous crimes. What good, they ask, does the publication of all these gruesome details achieve? But because you argue that crime may flourish with publicity it does not necessarily follow that crime will be cured by ignoring it. Tho Christian Science Monitor puts tho case well: " A remedy is more likely to be found in honest appraisal of tho social problem tho crime presents. Toward this appraisal newspapers have much to contribute. They are equipped to gather facts, to set them in their proper perspective, and to hoi]) readers to analyse crime to some purpose —to distinguish between mere symptoms and underlying causes." After all, tho best way to keep crime news out of newspapers is to keep crime out of human experience.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22100, 4 May 1935, Page 6 (Supplement)
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