Censored : the private life of the movie (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
Censored : the private life of the movie
Date:
1930
Publisher:
New York : Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, Incorporated
Volume:
Censored : the private life of the movie
Leaf #:
000240
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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PRIVATE LIFE OF THE MOVIE ence. It simply expressed, contradicted or reflected the opinion of the community it served. Advertising is the life of the modern paper and magazine. A chain store has no actual contact with the community. Its owner does not lunch with the local minister. He sits in lower Broadway. The local newspaper is being bought by syndicates, simply because the syndicate can get the chain store advertising, publish the paper at a lower cost. We do not have to go into this thing too deeply to recognize a familiar symptom of the new economic order. When the Post Office Department, in 1835, told Horace Greeley he must stop sending his newspaper to Lynchburg, Virginia, he simply wrote back and said: "I refuse to do anything of the kind." We wish a few of those old thunderers were back. Today, if the Post Office Department told a chain newspaper editor to discontinue editorials in a Southern branch, think what would happen. The chain store corporation, caring nothing for the situation, might say: "Your editorials will hurt our business. We'll 190