The Press: Drama of the Times

The tabloid New York Post, which likes murder stories and plays them big, last week chided the New York Times for its coverage of the Sheppard murder trial:

"From the time the case began we picked up our copy of the Times a little nervously each day, wondering on what obscure page we would find the Sheppard story. In the beginning there were whole days when not a word appeared, or when we could find only a lost, lonely paragraph. We know some small children are taught that nothing is news until it appears in the Times; could they have begun to...

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