Declaration of Principles

“I. I will provide the people of this city with a daily newspaper that will tell all the news honestly.

“II. I will also provide them with a fighting and tireless champion of their rights as citizens and human beings.”

—Charles Foster Kane II’s “Declaration of Principles” for his newspaper, The New York Inquirer, “Citizen Kane,” 1941.

• Editorial Comment: How quaint.

 

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Snow Dogs, 2008

 

 

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Edward C. Pease, Ph.D.
Professor & Department Head Emeritus
Department of Journalism & Communication
Utah State University
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