COMMENTING upon the announcement of the early issue of The Christian Science Monitor, the Los Angeles, Cal., Pacific Outlook said editorially,—
For the first time in the history of the world a religious organization is to become responsible for the regular publication of a daily newspaper which shall print, not simply news of a religious character, but the news of the whole world. Announcement is made from the headquarters of the Christian Science Church that The Christian Science Publishing Society will soon issue The Christian Science Monitor. . . .
Such a publication as this should become and remain the ideal daily newspaper. From one end of the country to the other—yes, from one corner of the world to the other—the cry has echoed and reechoed for years past: "Give us cleaner newspapers. Save us from the 'yellow press'!" There is no doubt that, way down in his heart, the average man, especially the average man of family, abhors the average daily newspaper's proclivities toward sensationalism. He abhors and detests "news" having to do with crimes, divorce, and certain brands of "sport." He has learned to look with suspicion on news relative to great and important political undertakings, experience having taught him that news of this class altogether too frequently is "doctored" to suit the ends sought by the party or faction of which his daily paper is an organ. More and more men of this type—the real bone and sinew of the nation, the thinking, independent men, the men who make bloodless and quiet revolutions possible —want a daily newspaper which will publish all the news that is fit to print, and stop there. It is significant that the Christian Science organization is the first to undertake the publication of such a paper. It means that this great and rapidly developing organization, with its hundreds of thousands of adherents, is keenly alive to the public demand. It means, we take it, that a great, high-minded daily is about to depart upon a mission comparable with which journalism thus far offers absolutely nothing. The debut of The Christian Science Monitor is bound to create a world-wide interest.
