Newspaper vs. TV Credibility for Local News

marked to desired size and sent to the camera where halftone negatives were made. The brochure explained that the proofs, illustrations, headlines and advertisements were then pasted to pagesize boards which were then photographed. Contact prints of the negatives were then made on zinc plates which were coated with an albumin potassium dichromate solution. The plates were then wrapped around press cylinders, from which the paper was printed. "Theory is that water and ink repel each other," the brochure explained. "Press has a set of ink rollers and set of water rollers. Where plate coating hardened, ink sticks; where coating washed off, water adheres, since plates have a grain."l2 The Daily World, by the end of 1940, was obviously on its way to success, although Andrepont had been forced to quit and sell his stock because of illness. The Daily World won reader acceptance not only for its aggressive news coverage but for its lavish use of pictures. The newspaper, of course, could reproduce photographs at low cost because of the offset process. In 1950, the competing Clarion News and the Opelousas Herald ceased publication. Except for service during World War I1 as a Marine pilot, Thistlcthwaite continued at the helm of the Daily World until 1972. He then sold the newspaper to Worrell Newspapers, Inc. for an undisclosed