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WHAT IS PERSONAL JOURNALISM?
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WHAT IS PERSONAL JOURNALISM?
An attempt has been made by a San Francisco journal to justify what is known in this country as "personal journalism," by the example of the Pal! Mull Gazette, in its present work of exposing the criminal practices of a class. There is no parallel to be drawn between the cases. "Personal journalism" in America is that whi* assails private reputation, either for the purposes of blackmail, to gratify envy or malice, or to maliciously work the ruin of a political or social opponent, it is engaged in pandering to a depraved taste for vicious reading, for mere love of scandal, or to secure business advantage.
This kind of journalism stops not witli facts; i: impugns motives; it distorts the truth it invades the family circle of its victim; it hurls its shafts at the innocent wife and children of the assailed ; i; fori it*- offensive presence into the household, no domesticity being sacred in its eyes, and it makes of public concern purely private ar.d innocent affairs. It does not confine itsolf to facts and the dignified and judicial recital of them, but having taken a given direction it uses all the arts known to journalism in suppression, garbling, coloring, cramming and misrepresenting to present the victim's case in the most damaging light, in short, having an end to accomplish, it stickles at the employment of no means, however unfair. ft drags personality to the front when no good end is to In* conserved and only .sen's* sationalism is to be augmented. It makes itself the repository of all manner of filth and scandal, foru»e.*is opportunity presents forthe gratification of its own vulgar ends. In sliort, while masquerading as a public benefactor, the only concern of "personal journalism" is to waylay character for merciless use in feeding the furnace of its sensational greed, regardless of every claim of justice and decency, and every demand of truth.
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