Building an Honest Newspaper.

American newspapers and magazines are great capitalist institutions, operated under the capitalist system, and in the interest of that system, serving private and not public interests. Not merely in the advertisements and the editorials, but in the news columns, American newspapers give false accounts of current history: first, by the broad and general method of elimination, the suppression of vast masses of current news unfavorable to the interests which control the papers; second, by distortion of such news as is actually published, and frequently by the invention of deliberate falsehoods; and third, by the refusal to publish corrections of such falsehoods, or to give to those misrepresented any opportunity to defend themselves.