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Scandal Mongers

"Scandal Mongers." New-York Saturday Press. 21 Apr. 1860: 2.
Type: 
newspaper
Genre: 
commentary
Abstract: 

The author criticizes those who write for "flash" newspapers because these writers print false and hurtful material to enhance their own pocketbooks and careers. This sort of writer is judged to be a disgrace to real journalists everywhere.

People Mentioned in this Work

Clare, Ada

The article specifically mentions a "letter referring to Ada Clare and her friends" as a case "in which a scandalous story was trumped up in respect to an accomplished correspondent of this paper..."