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Selections For Newspapers

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
April
Year
1848
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Most persons thi'iik die selection of suitable matter for a newspaper the easiest part of the business. How great an error! It is by all means the most clith'cult. To look over and over h u mirecis of' exchange papers every week f rom which to select enough for one, i ly wlien ihe question is, not what shall, but what slial! not be selected, is indeed no easy ! task. lf every person wlio reads a newspaper, could haveeuited lt, sve should hear less complaints- Not unf'requently is it the case that un editor looks over all his exchanges for ; soinelhing interesting, and can absolutely find nothing. Evnry paper is dryer han a contri-! bution box ; and yet something must be had - his paper must have something in t, and he does the best he can. To an editor who has! the '.east care about what he selects, the i ting that he does is the easiest part of his labor. A paper when competed should be one that the editor would be willing to read to his wif'e, his motber, his sister, or his daughter; and if lie do that, if he get such a paper, he will finJ lus labor a most difficult one. Every subsenber thinks the paper is printed for h's especial benefit, and if there is nolhing in it that suits lam it must be stopped, it is good for nothing. Sornu people look over ihe deaths and marriages, and actually complain of the editor, if' but few ppl ia the vicinity have baan so unfortunato as to die, or go fortúnate ' as to get married the previous week. An edtor should have such things in lus paper '■ er they occuror not. Justas many subscribers ns an editor may have just so many different tastes he bas to consult. One wants stories arid'peotry; another abhorsall this. The 1 itician wants nothing but politics. One must havo something sound. One hkes anecdotes fïin and frolic, anda next door neighbor i ders that a man of geneo will put such stuff i to his paper. Something picy comes out and the editor is a blackguard. Next comes 1 tb ing argumentative, and the editor is a dull fooi. Anti so between them all, you see the poor fellow gets rough'y hai:dled. And yet, i to ninety-nine out of a hundred, these thlngs ' never occur. They never refloct that what does not please them, may picase the next man, but they insist tlmt if the pajier does not suit