Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1920 — HARDING’S NEWSPAPER CREED [ARTICLE]

HARDING’S NEWSPAPER CREED

(Instructions given to every reporter and writer on the Marion, Ohio, Stef.) ? Remember there are two side to every question. Get them both. Be truthful. Get the facts. Mistakes are inevitable, but strive for accuracy. I would rather have one story exactly right than a hundred half Wrong. Be decent, be fair? be generous. Boost—don’t knock. There’s good in everybody. Bring out the good in everybody, and never needlessly hurt Ilie feelings of anybody. In reporting a political gathering, give the facts, tell the story as it is, not as you would like to have it. Treat all parties alike. If there’s any politics to be played, we will play it in our Editorial Columns. If it can possibly be avoided never bring ignominy to an innocent man or child in telling of the misdeeds or misfortunes of a relative. Don’t wait to be asked, but do it without the asking, and, above all, be clean and never let a dirty word or suggestive story get into type. I want this paper so conducted that it can go into any home without destroying the innocence of any child. „