Article January 2, 1915 Issue

As an example of clean journalism The Christian Science Monitor...

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As an example of clean journalism The Christian Science Monitor takes first rank. A few years ago, when it was established, it met with the opposition of the whole journalistic field, whose obiter dictum was that such a venture could not prove permanent. But the Monitor proved the fallacy of its non-endurance, and today this paper has an astonishingly large circulation. Its whole tone is wholesome and healthful, and a plain refutation of the common idea which sometimes obtains that newspapers, in order to establish a sound circulation of such size as to be of value to the advertiser, must give space only to the sensational and the horrible.

It is a regrettable fact that too often in newspaper recital the space is given to accounts of crime, disaster, death, and the unpleasant happenings of life. Very little if anything is said of the quiet, unostentatious act of the worthy citizen, who could probably pass a lifetime in a certain community and "never get his name in the paper," while the worst citizen gets the greatest attention.

The Christian Science Monitor puts into active practice the basic truths on which Christian Science is founded. It emphasizes the good rather than the evil, and refuses to accord supremacy to the bad. The Monitor sets a good example to modern-day journalism which others could well follow to the profit and advantage of all.

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