THE OLD BAILEY AND THE PRESS
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—It is highly gratifying to find, in a publication like the Spectator, an emphatic protest against the tendency toward journalistic exploitation of details of the most vicious and sordid crimes and social offences. A large portion of the English Press, having unfortunately fallen into the hands of a group of unscrupulous persons concerned merely with the size of circulation, is outdoing the " yellowest " of American news- papers in sensationalism, crudity and pandering to morbid taste. To see British journalism, once the standard of the world in cleanliness, dignity and accuracy, thus defiled is dis- tressing, and never was there so greatly needed just such a voice against it as you have raised.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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