Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1911 — Making News of Virtue. [ARTICLE]

Making News of Virtue.

Crime is exaggerated by critics of the newspaper more than by the newspaper itself. Criminal news actually forms a much smaller part of the normal newspaper than many faultfinders loosely assume. The Boston press gave more space to Moody and Sankey in their first great series of meetings thirty-five years ago than it ever had given to any unworthy pair, and within two years the reports of a big and protracted religious rally in Boston filled a larger number of news columns than the reports of any criminal case in the history of the city. While the unusual is the news most in demand by editors and readers, ft is not necessarily news of the unusually bad. The virtuous, if their virtue takes unusual shape or scope, can make news. Virtue itself, however, is not news, and it will be a sorry day when simple doing becomes news in any community.—Boston Globe.