Bane of all honest city editors and newshawks are "Business Office Musts." These are free stories about advertisers, which in many a paper take up so much space that legitimate news has to be whittled down or omitted entirely.
Many publishers, although they realize that this unpaid advertising is nothing less than a racket which cheapens the value of their paid advertising columns, have been afraid to interfere lest potent space-buyers be offended.
In Atlanta last week 1,200 advertisers were learning by experience what it was like to get along without B. O. M....
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