Editing C. P. Scott (section)

===Views===
In a 1921 essay marking the ''Manchester Guardian''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s centenary (at which time he had served nearly fifty years as editor), Scott put down his opinions on the role of the newspaper. He argued that the "primary office" of a newspaper is accurate news reporting, saying "comment is free, but facts are sacred". Even editorial comment has its responsibilities: "It is well to be frank; it is even better to be fair". A newspaper should have a "soul of its own", with staff motivated by a "common ideal": although the business side of a newspaper must be competent, if it becomes dominant the paper will face "distressing consequences".

While supporting [[Women's suffrage|female suffrage]], Scott was hostile to militant [[suffragettes]] in his editorials, accusing them of employing 'every engine of misguided fanaticism in order to wreck, if it be in their power, the fair prospects of their cause'<ref>Leader, 18 November 1911</ref> He was just as disturbed by the [[General Strike of 1926]], asking 'Will not the General Strike cease to be counted henceforth as a possible or legitimate weapon of industrial warfare'<ref>Leader, 14 May 1926</ref> Irish rebels were authors of their own destruction, he thought. On the execution of [[Padraig Pearse]] and [[James Connolly]] after the [[Easter Uprising]] in [[Dublin]], he wrote that 'it is a fate which they invoked and of which they probably would not complain'.<ref>4 May 1916, in David Ayerst (1971) ''The Guardian: Biography of a Newspaper''; p. 392</ref>

Scott was a supporter of [[Zionism]].<ref>Bloom, Cecil. "Josiah Wedgwood and Palestine". Jewish Historical Studies, vol. 42, 2009, pp. 147–172. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/29780127. Accessed 29 January 2020.</ref>