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The newspaper must provide
for the reader the facts, unalloyed, unslanted, objectively selected facts. But
in these days of complex news it must provide more; it must supply
interpretation, the meaning of the facts. This is the most important assignment
confronting American journalism—to make clear to the reader the problems of the
day, to make international news as understandable as community news, to
recognize that there is no longer any such thing (with the possible exception of
such scribbling as society and club news) as "local" news, because any event in
the international area has a local reaction in manpower draft, in economic
strain, in terms, indeed, of our very way of life.
There is in
journalism a widespread view that when you embark on interpretation, you are
entering choppy and dangerous waters, the swirling tides of opinion. This is
nonsense.
The opponents of interpretation insist that the
A. Space is limited.
B. His editor is prejudiced.
C. The subject is not important.
D. He is entering choppy and dangerous.