OUR NEWSPAPERS

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1688, 19 November 1925, Page 5

OUR NEWSPAPERS

SUPERIOR TO' AMERICA'S

"One has to come back to New Zealand after a stay in the United States to appreciate Now Zealand Journalism " said Mr A. A. Nattrass, who has* recently returned from California, where he went ti investigate roading methods, to a "Post" reporter. "There is nothing yellow about our papers here, and for that New Zealand may be very thankful. I need not mention particular papers, but one can look over page page of these great city publications in the States and find them filled with nothing but sensationalism. Now and again one comes across some outsule news, but a little country paper in Now Zealand gives us as much international and solid news in one issue as these yellow journals give in a month. " They make heroes of robbers, a girl who shot her mother when she was refused permission to go to a jazz party was interviewed day after day as to her intentions as to earning her livelihood when her ten years' term of imprisonment had expired—the paper expressing the opinion that the ten years would almost certainly be reduced to one—bootleggers' exploits were enlarged upon, a five-times divorced man gave general advice to all dissatisfied men to keep on trying, and so on. Gunmen, rum-runners, hank robbers, divorcees—heroes all. A man from New Zealand caniftot help thinkingafter reading American papers for a time that a very great percentage of the crime of the States, and there is no possible denial of that crime, has been encouraged by yellow journalism."