Lindstrom Says Press Did Not Use Judgment In Covering Elections

"Newspaper Conscience" outweighed news judgment in press coverage of the recent presidential election campaign, Carl E. Lindstrom, managing editor of the Hartford Times said at a banquet of the University's Nieman Fellows last night.

Lindstrom defined the newspaper conscience as the inspiration of "rich, big and proud men, editors and publishers, who have been humbled by the responsibility of being the sole channel of information...into making sure that both sides of the story were told."

This is particularly true, he said, of the "monopoly" city, where one newspaper serves a large territory and population to the exclusion of competition.

The newspaper conscience, he said, developed out of the "startling contradiction"--that of "sturdier character along with monopoly and wealth."