The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-09-10

The NewYork Tribune OF the Both ult. contains
five columns under this title. From it we propose
to CLEAN some Of the more interesting items. The
difference between the American and European
papers is thus pointed out:
American journalism. Ike the American national
character, is less conventional, more versatile, va
rious, and fl xbs than European. A German,
French or English journalist cannot put his paper
10 press without one or more regular long edtUTla
wrought out vi h due attention 10 all the rules of
rhetoric in a style smaCking often quite as much Of
the scholars study as of the crowded and rapid
world in which a real Editor has his being. The
American is more a Journalist, that is, a writer
who seizes upon the events of the day and holds
them up now in This aspect, now in that, hnglug
on them the most Condensed and lively light. He
does not seek 10 make elaborate essays; his ambI-
| tiOn lies not in fiue writing; he spends no long
hours IL polishing the turn of his periods. All that
pres opposes certain degree of leisure, and perhap
| a kind of taste TO which he s a stranger. At any
rate. he has toOmany things to look alter, too many
| subject to discuss, too large q und of affairs 10
understand and write about, to cultivate wuh asst
| duty the mere pprtumeT,es and plgeOn.wirgs Of
| his profession. From necessity, he had rather he
bTlet aud pointed than elegant and classical; his
hest triumph as a writer, is an occasional felicity
| which is, after all, often an accident 1t is r.
markable that the only paragraph writers are
Americans. In fact paragraphs are a natural in
vfuIon Of the more youthful period of journalism,
before great variety of talent, or thorough study
and treatment OF SUBJECTS are required III TIE Gili-
| t0rial columns ofnewspapers. The tendency seems
| 10 b., to abandon them as the Press is improved.
| Take for instance file 0fany leading London Jour
| nal Of sixty even thirty years ago and you VIII
| find these brief, pithy editorials quite frequent,
| though the same paper has since ceased to use
| them. And yer a paragraph of Two or three brief
| sentences will often have more force and produce
greater effect the convictions Of IT. readers than
| the same idea expanded through two or three
| columns though set forth with the richest resources
| H. tad lt
all the suggestions of wit and learning. Not that
| the whole warfare of journalism can he accom-
plished with light weapons. But the Editor shou d
| have every sort Of arms IN his arsenal and know
| when to strike with the small sword and when to
| fire fl his big guns. For the rest, this kind Of
| writing requires a genius to do it in perieCuOD.
| ManVa quill driver will turn off indefinite lrngti 5
OF correct and even elegant English, not deficient
| in sense either, who cannon achieve a dozen lines,
such as every body shall read and nobody forget the
| point Of Well this sort of writing is peculiarly
| Amer lean. A German or French paper NAV EN-,
puv It, but never in It's editorial columns, nor uT
subjects which have Il serious importance. Con
ceive If you can of genuine paragraph among tte
editorial articles Of the London Times, or the Jour
nal des DebatS The Thing is imposslhle it would
be agails, all the rules it would infringe on the
stately dignlty Of the Journal. The American Edi
tor is luckily shaCkled by no such consideration
On the contrary, he prefers an article Of ten lines
one OF ten hundred provided he can thereby hi
the nail on the head.
The superiority Of the cheap press is strong
urged.
There are two great classes of daily journals il
America, The dear and The cheap. The former srt
relics of old tmes--the latter the product of tht
new; the former incline to a sort OF domestic tran
uuiluy-lhe latter are full of life, movement aut
invention. The tofm- have long been and still ar
the chosen medium of advertising for such whole
sale merchants Us require bnt iiiue publicity io
their announcements. Devong cumpayallvei
ltIe space 10 news and editorial matter, and Charr
ing high prices to their subscribers they arr able
I fill up their big sheets with standing advertisement
I at rates low enough TO SUIT those whose business
81 large as only to need advertising after the slu
!, and easy fashion Of twenty years ago. The Che'
| papaTg 20 on another principle. Instead of makii
| their unsCrihers pay for the advert semeuts If II
merchants, Hey make the ilitcT PAY tqiriy for I
ScrUiCe then reCCre, and SO are enabled 10 afiJ
their papess 10 their readers at rates but lttle If
|. all, above the cost Of the white sheets on whl
3, they are printed. Instead Of making it their bu
). mes, To publish az little news as practicable m
tIlat in the hrietst space, IN order that they m
have room for advertisements, their plan ja ty q
the news entire, well as all other matter interes
p ing 10 the public, leaving 10 advertisements on
the second pace. Thus u dear Dapar, OHt ct Tor
- columns, suppOsIng ii to have so many, may occui
j" seven with news and editorials, leaving thFy'lhr
for its advertisers; a cheap paper, ont o loTIy-e'g
v columns, will occupy thirty 10 hrlytwo WIN He'
and editorials which it is not too much 10 say a
- equal in qualify 10 The seven columns OF Inc o,n'
or while they greatly exceed them in quantity and
riety. The result is seen ~ The ,ImilsI ahu 81
A. tiOua circulation OF The one, ana tue ia'Ee al
9y steadily increasing subscription Isis Of the oth'
h It is needless to add that the latter the medium
''' advertising generally sought by young and enl,
prsinq men, whose shrewd Judgment Snot blind
ssh by habit or a mistaken notion OF cheapness.
f9r, leaving this branch of The subject ought
I. add that rhe enlarged and liberal enterprise IN
les, mbtaining of news, which We have spoken of a
rrominent and honorable characteristic of
: American press, originated IN great measure "
md ,I, cheop nr.ts and bat for the inurnals Of I
Hs class would never have reached is present de'
!. Opment
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