The Press: Contradictory History

Myth gathers quickly around fabulous events, and already newspaper myths are gathering around the origin of the first newspaper appearance of the famed Scopes case (see EDUCATION).

At first, it was labeled as a press-agent stunt for Dayton, Tenn., but that theory seems to have been disregarded. Last week Editor and Publisher and The Fourth Estate, two trade journals of the newspaper world, printed diverse accounts of the origin of the Scopes story in the press.

Editor and Publisher Version: When Scopes was arrested, a lawyer, Wallace Haggard, said to E. F. Robinson...

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