Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Submitting False News Reports Is Inexcusable, June 26, 1925

The News-Record Would Be Reliable. . . Don’t Send in False Statements or You May Be Exposed

The News-Record, above all things else, wishes to be reliable. We would like to have it said that when you see a thing in the News-Record, you may count on it being true. In order to do this we ask the cooperation of all our readers. We cannot understand why anyone would wish to have a falsehood published in a newspaper. Yet several times recently articles have been sent to this paper that were known to be false when they were sent. It is to be expected that once in a while, people may be mistaken about a matter. If a person is honestly mistaken, it is easy to explain. But when a person deliberately tried to deceive the public such a thing is inexcusable. Last week we published two accounts of weddings that have since been denied to be true. A mother came to this office and gave us an account of the death of her married daughter and her infant, which she wished published, and we were glad to publish it as news, only to find out later that not a word of truth was in it. How could a mother wish the public to read that her daughter was dead when she was not? If we are deceived again by this woman, we expect to expose her to the public. We cannot believe anything else she may tell us and if she ever gets another statement in this paper, it will be paid for over her name, unless she should find some roundabout way to deceive us.

We do not like to call people names, but the person who sent to this paper last week the account of the Mars Hill couple being married that was absolutely false may yet be exposed. It is our purpose to break up such deception if possible. This paper wishes to publish the news, but it does not wish to publish what is not true.

--The Editor

From the front page of The News-Record, Marshall, N.C.—“The Only Newspaper Published in Madison County.” June 26, 1925

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