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"Get news if you can. If not, make news." Such is the seldom spoken but often implied command of editors to their staffs.
Obedient correspondents and rewrite men "made news" last week concerning the attempted Paris-New York flight of Captains Nungesser and Coli (see p. 26). First, most of the Paris evening newspapers worked Frenchmen into a hysteria of joy by publishing extras which said: "The Atlantic is conquered. . . . Nungesser welcomed in New York Harbor." One sheet gave details of...
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