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Show 10 Mclaws examined the nuances of the newspaper's role as church defender and apologist, he avoided taking sides. Still, although attempting impartiality, the research was situated in the broader rut of Utah journalism history that descriptively focused on rel igious tensions and major papers. Several histories celebrating the first one hundred years of individual newspapers provide an incomplete, often biased, yet valuable institutional examination of Utah journalism. 0. N. Malmquist, a longtime editor at The Salt Lake Tribune, published a history that favors its subject, yet gives insights that only a former employee could. 21 While the pro-Tribune perspective has limitations, the research carries the advantage of Malmquist's access to personal papers of past editors and owners. I-le also had the institutional knowledge from a career at the paper. Despite the shortcomings, Malmquis1 did not present his newspaper as the hero or as infallible in every situation. Furthermore, Malmquist's history, while focusing on the Tribune, placed his research in the state's political context, which provides a unique perspective in Utah's journalism historiography. Ray Beckham wrote a similar one-hundred-year history of the Daily Herald, a Utah County newspaper. 22 While he recounted some of the issues and events the newspaper covered, he presented little analysis, instead chronicling names, dates, and finances of the paper. Beckham failed to set his study in the context of Utah or national journalism history. 21 O. N. Malmquist, The Firs/ JOO Years: A History of The Salt lake Tribune, 1871-/971 (Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1971 ). 22 Raymond E. Beckham, One Hundred Years of Journalism in l'rovo, Utah: A History ofthe Daily Herald and Its Predecessors from 1872 to 1972 (Carbondale, IL: Southern lltinois University, 1980). |
