New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-31
WHAT PAPER GETS THE WAR NEWS.
CANDID STATEMENTS BY IMPARTIAL EXPERTS


Some OF our New York cotemporarles seem
70 accept the bef think that others will accept It, OF
the old lady who said that thing must be true
ISOLATED Press of New York any member Of the Assoca
ton obliged to give certain of s special dispatches 70
all the other Members who may them or not IA they
please, but paying pro rata proportion OF the expense
Of OFF case they DO Use Them soI UR
an ITS war , dispatches to the :, other papeGGs
which publish them in part or In full as they see i
TRIBUNE had resident correspondent In London, who
Immediately organized corps Of correspondents and
get ahead of its contemporaries in furnishing news
which the public anxious to receive. Much OF
pSc s5 Snd their and
were none the less obliged TO the journal which gave
them plenty of dispatches such they were. Certainly
THE TRIBUNE deserved credit for it's success and would
have received 1t were there hing like generous and
of this however OF the other papers while they
accept and publish The TRIBUNE's dispatches, pooh
pieces the statements of its correspondents and assume
because they pay their share Of the elegaphng that
than they of their own 1t is hard to believe that
these editors persuade themselves that anybody can
believe that this is fair statement. and that re sun or
TIE HeTdfd for instance just much entitled To the
credit THE TRIBUSEs dispatches II they and not
Respondents who forward them. The simple fact is, and
We can hardly doubt that the York public under
alone, is entitled to all the credit OF procuring,
other papers have other share and therefore no other
merit III them than paying portion OF the Geographic
expense under the rule OF the Associated Press Tor what
THE TRIBUNE provides them. These papers do not, We
persuaded raise themselves at all In public estima
ton by thus attempting TO deprive contemporary OF
the reputation it has ON this OCCASION of successful
enterprise in procuring important news. They had
much better acknowledge that, to certain point The
TRIBUNE, by having "man to the FORE" beat them all
out and out but that they and will beat THE TRIB
hereafter by procuring fuller and more trustworthy
intelligence than its correspondents have ever sent
Newspaper readers are not general thing, fools.
They will give 10 other journals full credit for their
ergy and enterprise when they deserve H. and Will not
believe that paying portion of the expense OF trans
hitting dispatch Is equivalent tO organizing the ways
and means. the and measures. whereby there
dispatch to send
Prom The Illinois Stats Zeung.
The journalistic fcats of The n Y. TRIBUNE
the occasion of the European have parallel IN
history of journalism Every day IL contains col
of correspondence from the seat OF war; sent by
ing the salary for il cOrrepOndeDts must. even should
last three months only expect to pay for special
kilograms alone mot including the expense Of the tcle-
grams TO the Associated Press, $4,000 to $1,000 In
view of Unprecedented journalistic enterprise,
everything done by The London Times dwlndes away 10
nothing. II Is not supposing too much when one says
that all the journals of g. rmany taken together do not
pay grams much does THE ~ y. TRIBUNE az
Prom The Montreal News
THE TRIBUEE, beyond all comparison, gives
detailed dispatches from the seat than any
other paper in the United states The expense Is enor
Gus. We rejoice TO learn that the enterprise OF The
TRIBUNE Is fully appreciated, and that support IN
corresponding to its colossal outlay accorded
to the most enterprising newspaper Of the day.