NEWSPAPER REPORTING
Sta,—In associating myself with Professor •Pigou's protest against news- paper intrusions on private grief, I suggested that such protests would recur as long as the public made them in general terms without specifying the names of tht offenders, who were newspaper proprietors rather than their correspondents, since the latter have no alternative but to do what is required of them. My colleague Horace Thorogood replies that they have an alternative: refuse and be sacked. I hasten to associate myself with this heroic attitude, but I cannot help feeling that my original suggestion remains useful because, if-journalists should resign rather than inflict suffering, a glance through a certain section of the Press, plus the recurrence of protests such as that of Professor Pigou, suggests either that they don't do what they should or that their resignations have Hub visible effect on those responsible for newspaper policy.—Yours, &c.,
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