The Pall of Orthodoxy.

Accelerating the trend toward daily-newspaper monopolies, the elimination of these papers has extended the pall of orthodoxy that now muffles so much public discussion in the U.S. Last year Elzey Roberts, publisher of the late Star-Times, in accepting the Missouri University award for distinguished service to journalism, pointed out that "the trend toward monopoly situations is growing at such a rate that if it is not stopped it may change the whole complexion of American journalism." The trend is a product of stabilized counting-house journalism, which is in turn a function of the increasingly integrated American social system.