Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1917 — No "Scoops” In Japan. [ARTICLE]

No "Scoops” In Japan.

What is known as a “scoop” in America does not exist in Japan. If one newspaper has a particularly choice Item of news, it communicates it to other papers. What is the use of being selfish? After all, it is the editorial opinion that counts, but even in this there is an exchange of “courtesy.” because it is a common thing for one paper to remark that the other “commented editorially as follows yesterday.”—Archie Bell, in World Outlook.