scare-lines

Updated: May 2, 2025

One of the chief problems connected with the press is therefore this how can it be prevented from producing hysteria in the feeble-minded? In time of war the censorship no doubt does something to prevent this; and I think it might do more. 'Scare-lines', as they are called that is, sensational headings in large capital letters might be reduced by law to modest dimensions.

Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh - England and the War