New-York daily tribune., 1854-08-21
JOURNALISM.

The albany Register makes recen! leading Article
in THE TRIBUNE the text for some well-meaat and
kindly objections not to the article ITSELF but to GER
tain personal and nenta peculaities which chooses
to attribute to the founder and principal political
editor Of this journal. The same course OF remark
deceperatng into abuse and blsckguardism often, Is
from time to time pursued by other papers which
honor us BY their notice. These papers, respected
and disrespected, seem, though they should know
better, to labor under the popular superstition that
leading metropolitan newspaper must be wholly the
work of one man. and that single pen can every day
write tie whole Of 1t, from the beginning to the end
including the advertisements and the police re-
ports We have often corrected this prepos-
ferrous notion, and, for the benefit Of The Regis
ter, will now proceed TO do it again. Briefly
then, THE TRIBUNE il not only not the work
Of single individual, but OF ma :, and to put upon
one the praise Of its virtues such they or tho
blame of its faults is quite incorrect Taus the ar-
tole in Lich The Register finds occasion FOX column
Of personal criticisms was not only not the product
of the individual thus criticized, but never seen
by him til after it had appeared in print; AMI the
same may be said of the great majority of the cases
in which the same person is yariOusly assailed.
This is said not 10 disclaim the article in ques-
ton, stn less to solicit cessation of such personal
hostties s--iOr they of very small consequence,
but simply to correct Misrepresentation that seems
quite surprising to the mode in which large
ewspGper establishment il managed.
We big thea to suggest to TIE Register, and L our
brethren of the press generally that they would do
well, when they deem il their duty to set right any
thing which ttey ihink is wrong 10 columns, to
address themselves to the journal ana not to any one
whom they may know or believe TO be among is
writers. The TRIBUNE aims a. the dignity of per-
manent public institution and accordingly has fre-
quen occasion TO state principles and put forth areu-
ments whck may very properly be taken up aud dis
cussed by any periodical thinking them OF sufficient
importance; but we submit that such dis :ussons gain
nothing by being made the occasion for personalities,
Whether objurga;ory or hattering. When writer
prints undsr bis own name then he ID immediately re.
sponsibe for what he says; and when a newspaper
does the same then it is tie newspaper which is
sponsible and not any private or public man.
If journalism is ever TO attain better dignity thar
it now possesses in this country II must be by laying
aside tho load of personalities with which it
has been the custom TO clog and often to degrade it,
Let us if possible, have the utterances OF IDEAS AID
the conflicts of opinion, of which the daily and weekly
press are so largely and benefcally the medium, dis
embarrassed from all preudices, either favorable or
hostile, concerning individuals. Those who believe
that one proposition is false another true simply
because they attribute it to this that writer may
End some incony eIience in losing so short way o
determining to truth and fasehool, but the public
at large viii be gamer and the press still more so.