A debate over “the overgenerous publicity given baseball by the newspapers” and the call for curtailing coverage of the sport was part of an early twentieth-century campaign against the “free publicity evil” by American newspaper publishers—culminating in the Chicago Tribune’s 1921 campaign to persuade the nation’s newspapers to run fewer and shorter baseball stories. The heart of that dispute between newspapers and the national game involved a negotiation defining “What is news?—to include a reconsideration of news values in the struggle between the adage about “giving readers what they want” and the maturing articulation about what it means for the press to serve the public interest, which culminated in early expressions about the concept of “constructive journalism.”

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棒球与新闻

关于“报纸对棒球的过度宣传”和要求减少对这项运动的报道的争论是 20 世纪早期美国报纸出版商反对“免费宣传邪恶”运动的一部分——在 1921 年芝加哥论坛报的运动中达到高潮说服全国的报纸刊登更少、更短的棒球报道。报纸与全国运动会之间争论的核心涉及定义“新闻是什么？”的谈判，包括在“为读者提供他们想要的东西”的格言与关于其含义的成熟表达之间的斗争中重新考虑新闻价值让新闻界为公众利益服务，这在“建设性新闻”概念的早期表达中达到了高潮。