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Newspaper Reporters.

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
May
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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A very common error is prevalent that the work oí reporters, given in newEpapers, as a rule is not entitled to respect or credence. It is generally assnined tkw. the reporter ■writes chiefly or wholly to make a sensation or in soine way interest re;#ers without regard to facts, while just the reverse is the truth in all reputable newspaper establishments. It is safe to assume that the statements of reporters given in the leading reputable journals of the country are quite as trnthful as are the general statements from the pulpit when the minister gets ontside of strictly religious teachings, and very much more truthf ui than are the public expressions of most if not all of the leading professions. With very few exceptions the management of our leading daily newspapers enforce trnthfulness and fairuess as the supreme attributes for a newspaper writer, and yet it is common for all who are displeased with any reportorial statement to say that "it'sa mere newspaper story. ' ' It is true that there are a few conspicuous exceptions to the rule that governs the reputable newspapers of the country. .Not only are the managers of our leading newspapers entitled to great credit for the scrupulous care they inforce on their reporters and correspondente to present the truth with as exact fairuess as is possible, but the publio little know the oeaseless care that is exercised in every reputable newspaper office to prevent the publication of even the truth when it would be more harmful to publish than tosuppressit. There is not a week, indeed hardly a day, that the newspapers of this city do not suppress the facts proper for public information which would make a most interesting story solely because it would bring a flood of sorrow to the innocent and helpless and cast an imperishable shadow upon their lives. With all the errors necessarily committed in a newspaper office by reason of the baste with which the articles mustoften be prepared, the public little know with what thorough integrity the newspapers, as a rule, protect the innocent even at the oost of suppressing legitimate and interesting information. The skeletons of hundreds of households are carefully guarded in the newspaper offices of the country, and generally without even the knowledge of the people who are thus

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