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Three articles from The Youth’s Companion. In the first, Arthur Twining Hadley discusses the role of newspapers in society and politics, and advises how boys can improve the quality of newspapers. The second is a story about a Mr. Hardwick inventing an alarm clock. The third is a chapter of a story about the Black Star Line by Ralph Delahaye Paine.
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1908-11-05
In an article outlining issues to be discussed at the Pan-Anglican Congress, John St. Loe Strachey discusses journalism. In particular, he writes about concerns regarding yellow journalism, triviality in the press, anonymity in the press, the importance of publicity, and the importance of the news.
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1908-03-31
Theodore Roosevelt denies describing Justice Hughes as “that Baptist hypocrite.”
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1916-05-03
Theodore Roosevelt compliments James Thomas Williams’s two editorials. The New York World has been claiming that Roosevelt has been denouncing Justice Hughes and press misrepresentation seems inescapable. He relates an incident where he spoke privately to two reporters about Hughes and they both quoted the private conversation in print with opposite interpretations.
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1916-04-22
The universal feeling among Harvard graduates is that the article on Yale’s attitude in sport has done real damage. President Roosevelt is pleased that the article was removed from Harvard Graduates’ Magazine but this only slightly offsets the damage. Recriminations are not helpful or dignified.
1905-12-04
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Admiral Cowles for the letter and is in agreement “from reciprocity down.” In a postscript, Roosevelt expresses his admiration for Admiral Sperry but is reluctant to write about private matters in The Outlook. He agrees that Senator Lodge gave his speech at an unfortunate time.
1911-02-10
Theodore Roosevelt, wearing a military uniform with the Japanese Imperial seal on the hat and holding a rifle, stands behind the “Park Row Earth Works,” as two rolled-up newspapers labeled “Sun” and “World” with rifles charge the earthworks. The background shows the war flag of the Japanese Imperial Army. Caption: “The war talk is due entirely to newspapers, which seek to increase their sales, and which for political reasons attack the Government.”–Taft at Tokio.
A week after spectacular Wall Street panic, Puck commented instead, for the second week in a row, on diplomatic friction between the United States and Japan. The wall Street situation was news, however, a rolling crisis and rather complicated, so perhaps it was safer to address international matters.
President Roosevelt indeed considered the festering controversies with Japan as a major irritant — especially in his de facto role as Great Anticipator. Japan was a growing military power; Roosevelt reckoned that the island nation would expand throughout the Pacific over the next generation, and was aware that the proud Japanese took exception to American exclusion laws and anti-Asian agitation.
William Michael Byrne thanks William Loeb for warning him that newspapers are likely to criticize him and asks Loeb which newspapers he thinks will be running negative stories. Byrne thinks he can ask some of his friends to convince the newspapers not to run critical stories about him.
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1904-07-11
Typewritten manuscript with handwritten edits and additions by Theodore Roosevelt. The article discusses the state of journalism in the United States and why The Outlook is exemplary, in Roosevelt’s opinion. Editorial for The Outlook, March 6, 1909.
1909-03-05
Preliminary copy of a speech President Roosevelt would deliver at the cornerstone laying for the House of Representatives Office Building. Roosevelt speaks in favor of journalistic integrity, and that “to denounce mud slinging does not mean the indorsement [sic] of whitewashing.” He advocates for government oversight over corporations to ensure taxes are paid and used appropriately.
This speech is popularly known as “The Man with the Muck-Rake,” due to Roosevelt’s references to a character in John Bunyan’s 1678 work The Pilgrim’s Progress. Roosevelt is credited with coining the term “muckraker” to describe investigative journalists that are overly sensationalist and do not offer solutions.
Preliminary copy of a speech President Roosevelt would deliver at the cornerstone laying for the House of Representatives Office Building. Roosevelt speaks against sensationalism and in favor of government oversight over corporations.
This speech is popularly known as “The Man with the Muck-Rake,” due to Roosevelt’s references to a character in John Bunyan’s 1678 work The Pilgrim’s Progress. Roosevelt is credited with coining the term “muckraker” to describe investigative journalists that are overly sensationalist and do not offer solutions.
Original draft, with handwritten edits, of a speech President Roosevelt would deliver at the cornerstone laying for the House of Representatives Office Building. Roosevelt speaks against sensationalism and in favor of government oversight over corporations.
This speech is popularly known as “The Man with the Muck-Rake,” due to Roosevelt’s references to a character in John Bunyan’s 1678 work The Pilgrim’s Progress. Roosevelt is credited with coining the term “muckraker” to describe investigative journalists that are overly sensationalist and do not offer solutions.
Partial draft, with handwritten edits, of a speech President Roosevelt would deliver at the cornerstone laying for the House of Representatives Office Building. Roosevelt speaks against sensationalism and in favor of government oversight over corporations.
This speech is popularly known as “The Man with the Muck-Rake,” due to Roosevelt’s references to a character in John Bunyan’s 1678 work The Pilgrim’s Progress. Roosevelt is credited with coining the term “muckraker” to describe investigative journalists that are overly sensationalist and do not offer solutions.
The secretary of Theodore Roosevelt consulted with George Emlen Roosevelt and it is clear that Theodore Roosevelt would not grant an interview to journalist Pinci but Pinci was free to compile an article from Roosevelt’s speeches and writings. However, Pinci altered Theodore Roosevelt’s past speeches to make it appear that Pinci had conducted an interview. Harper’s has been contacted and told that no interview took place.
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1912-10-16
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs Gilman that Roosevelt has denied giving an interview to Mr. Pinci and the interview answers appear to have been taken from Roosevelt’s speeches. It is not an interview and should not be published as such.
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1912-10-04
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Samuel C. Dobbs for his invitation to the meeting of the Associated Advertising Clubs of America, but he regrets that he is unable to attend. He applauds the goals of the organization.
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1911-07-19
Theodore Roosevelt cannot believe that Ida M. Tarbell would compare the New York Herald to the New York Tribune. He believes that the comparison is as ridiculous as comparing American Magazine with Town Topics. Roosevelt defends The Outlook‘s balance and journalistic ethics.
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1911-05-06
Theodore Roosevelt is disappointed with an American Magazine article that praised James Gordon Bennett. According to Roosevelt, “Bennett represents more brazenly and shamelessly the forces of evil in the United States.”
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1911-04-28
Theodore Roosevelt refutes several statements written by George Kennan that appear in the pamphlet The Chicago and Alton Case.
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1916-01-19
Theodore Roosevelt found T. Kyle Dawson’s article to be excellent but Dawson was misinformed about Roosevelt’s article, “The Duty of the United States to Its Own People.” Roosevelt blames this misinformation on English correspondents only telegraphing the sensational parts of his article. The main point of the article was America’s failure to make military preparations. Roosevelt was appealing to his countrymen and had no idea the article would be read in England.
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1915-11-20