The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-11-09

Prize Trouble with our Daily Papers
Why 90 nos some Of our wealthy capital
, ISIS gho are familiar with European Jour
nslism, and who have The good uame Of IN
metropolis as heart, unite and subscribe
sufficient SUM e establish a first class DAILY
paper IN this city9 Our so-called leading
journals are a discreiit g. us, IS we explain.
; ed in former srtiele, and, as they are nov
managed, the merchants in this city wht
require all the news have 10 subscrbe foi
oRs OF more Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati
ST. Louis, and New Orleans papers. We
make the charge boldly, and viii prove
what we say, that there is not daily news
paper in New York tina. Is what il should
be. This city controls the commerce Of a
continent, and ct il is a shameful fact thsi
Il has not one Journal which gives fall
} and exhaustive summary Of the kind Of
commercial news required byour merchanta,
/ ard only one that attempts to.do 10. To
supply this want, weekly papers have been
/ established. Us Is disgraceiul that che city
| OF chicago, with a population Of less than
two hundred thousand, has three papers
each % which gives one-thrd more reading
matter than any single New York Journal,
and on the editorial and news departments
Of which probably fifty per cent. more
money is expended than is spent by any
paper IN THIS city. In the matter Of special
telesraPhic dispatches we ere creditaoly in
formed that the Chicago Times, Tribune,
and Republican spend three times a much
as any one daily in this CITY. The c1nse-
quence is, that the Chicago papers. so far as
relates 70 she publication Of news, are near
er perfect than any in the country. Their
commercial news ParticalaElF Is very full
| and reliable. New York being the aaturnl
headquarters Of intelligence from abroad.
W. Ia #uHH .aHaH
foreign news department Of our meIropoli-
tan dallies is shsmeiuly neglected.
! Some Of our readers who reside in the
country may have noticed that the best
weekly papers published in the principal
| towns in each county are mainly filed with
| short paragraphs. Unable to print the
news in full, the editor, if be has wit and
industry enough, eondenses she talent fea-
| lures Of il or he obtains it from the Fapers
/ published in the Ia &c critics, and gives IL
| the form Of items. This Is the kind Of pa
per that is most successful in the rural dis
triets- II these readers win examine the
/ New York dailies, they viii notice how thew
/ are beginning 70 copy the models furnished
| by enterprising couatry editors. The uews
| comes crowding IN from every quarter
which it is found impossible TO give with
| anything like the fuilnesI it deserves, and
50 il Is ''hoiled down" 10 use a journalists
terml into short paragraphs. Hence the
origin Of The P0pulsr co umn CT news SUM
mary in the Tribune, Times, and Herald,
IN which mere mention is made OF iutell-
geBee that cannot be given in fall
But WY Is this, che reader may ask? The
answer may be found in the existence Of
the monopoly known as the Associated
Press This association was organised soon
alter the telegraph began to be employed
for che Transmission Of news, when New
fork was much smaller city than Il is at
present, when newspapers were numerous
aud struggling for an existence, and before
the metropolis controlled the gigantic cone
merce which has since added SO much % its
wealth, population, and Importance. Il is |
composed OF seven newspapers, to-wir |
the Journal OF Commerce, tribune, World, |
Herald, Times, Express, and sun. The other |
papers purchase the news Of this close cor
poTation, and a modicum thereof is fur |
nished By IL 10 the various p Pers through |
out the couutry. some me 81 &c the As !
ISOLATED Pres voted to allow n more pape-s |
than those now N the city 20 have the news, !
the American Telegraph Company with |
which u has contracts) agreeing not - per- !
nit any other journal 70 use its ines. How |
all this acts injuriouslyy is very evident |
The New York sun, for instance, small /
and poor paper, having 20 share the expense |
in common with the other members Of the /
association, objects to mourning large bills |
for telegraphing. The journal OF Com !
merce, siso, as it makes speciality Of COM !
mercial intelligence, has little concern ]
about general news, and hence, 20 satisfy /
these aud other less enterprising papers, |
the Associated Press is compelled TO restrict |
its expenses for telegraphing within much |
narrower limits than the papers represented I
in it should do. The rules Of the associa- |
ton permit each paper 20 obtain and print |
all the special dispatches it may choose |
but copies of such dispatches must be sent |
TO every other paper, which latter can print I
them or not, az their option The only eX- |
ceptions 30 this rule are dispatches from /
Washington aud A bauy, and IN q few spe- /
ciai cases, such as the meeting of a national /
political convention. Tbis explains what /
many have often wondered at) how it was /
that during the late war most all the special /
dispatches from the field Of conflict i'm the /
East were transmitted by telegraph from 4
Washington, though olttimes they might 1
have been sent almost directly from tho field 1
Of battle. The papers, 20 avoid sending I
their competitors special dispatches, in
strueted their correspondents % send m
portant letters 10 Washington, whence they |
were transmitted to this city from the tele-
graph Office ST that point. The effect of I
the Sc restrictions j. what might be expected. |
The enterprise Of the arious ucVTspa pers is i
baked by 10. Ct arbitrary rules, q mouop- /
oily Is established in the conduct Of New 1
York Journals, and as 70 competition IS
feared leach paper occupying a field Of its /
own, either Is party organ or as the me- |
dunn for the publication OF some particular /
kind Of newsl, the papers make no effort |
towards improvement.
Another Objectionable feature Of the Assoc
eiated Press Is, thar il binds itself to use the
Of
to the exclusion Of an others. This, of
course, gives the said company a monopoly |
Of a very valuable kind Of business, but it Is
likely to be soon broken down By the expi- 4
ration Of the Morse patent which il secured /
years since. Any company can now start \
telegraph line. Already abe United States /
Company is extending It's line in every d. /
rection, aud there is but little doubt but that 1
within few years the public viii have the /
choice OF half-s-dUzeu telegraph lines, 1
reaching from one Of the country 10 the 9TH
er, and at far cheaper rates than are now
paid.
There IS one reason why this Associated
Press monopoly should be abolished which /
appeals especially 70 business men. Under
the present rules Of the association the for
eign commercial news t-legraphed 10 its
agent in this city after the 40, ming papers |
have gone 10 press, remains IN biz poses
sion until a certain hour In the forenoon,
when it is given out simultaneously 70 the
evening papers. The breadstufIs, provi-
sion, aud CO ton markets are, from the time
Of the receipt Of the foreign dispatches %
the time Of their delivery to She press, Of
the mercy Of single individual We DO
not say thai there is any corruption Ia the
csse, but we do say that this Is 700 great
power 70 De lodged IN the hands Of any one
man; and il is time that provision Vas mace
to insure the commercial community against
the possibility OF the use cf ness f0r the
beneht Of private parties.
There is now q ane chance for the estab-
lishment Of a new paper in this city which
shall have az command capital enough 10
meet all the requisites for frst-class daily
IF such hprojsct be not serted
within q reasonable length Of time, we shall
seriously think Of converting The Round
Table into a daily paper in order TO give the
metropolis, what It has never yet bad, tho
roughly independent, impartial, end high
.ole1 journal, which vii represent The PEG
pie Of the United States as truly, sad, we
hope. more wortaily, than tie L0odoa /
Times does the people Of EBg snd.-12oR1d
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