In Washington, assembled the American Society of Newspaper Editors. To eat with them and talk with them came President Calvin Coolidge. Said he:
"The chief ideal of the American people is idealism. I cannot repeat too often that America is a nation of idealists. That is the only motive to which they ever give any strong and lasting reaction. No newspaper can be a success which fails to appeal to that element of our national life."
The editors themselves turned to a discussion of newspaper ethics crime news in particular.
Willis Abbot, Managing Editor of...
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