The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-12-09
JOURNALISM.
Things About the Borlir
Press.

Astonishing Things About the Berlin
Berlin Correspondence n. 7. Tribune.
The Berlin press is not at all metro
politan in character, and even behind an
American inland town like Chicago.
Even the present war did not break its
slumber. By royal authority, there Is
only one reporter at the Kings head
quarters, who writes for all the papers
of this city; his letters, under the sig
nature of (. Ksysler), are published
by all of them. Only very few have
their own reporters; here and there an
occasional contributor sends an account
of some important event, but do not
remember having seen single tele-
eraphic dispatch Of more than
ten lines beside the official ones.
1--WE cannot help it, say tne
editors, when blamed for the
meagerness and sameness of their news,
'ft would not pay to procure informa-
ton at the enormous expense which the
American and English papers go to tor
satisfying the Unsuitable appetite OF their
readers. But these gentlemen have
never fried whether it will pay or not,
and prefer their old method OF copying
from foreign, especially English, papers.
Imagine that the capture Of Napoleon
WAS not published any earlier at Berlin
than at New York and San Francisco
The first news of this momentous event,
! addressed to the Queen, arrived here on
Friday night, September I'd, at II
o'clock. and another account reached
tbe Minister of the Interior at II o'clock.
The latter, instead of sending it at once
TO the press, kept it for himself and his
friends. Thus the morning papers o.
Saturday, 3D., did not contain wore
about the glorious success, and 1t was
only at $50 a. m. OF that morn
ING that extras were published
have not seen q single paper which com
planned of this utter want OF propnety
of this gross stupidity, on the part o
the Government. The city items Q
Berlin are about all the same, ana Tn
papers seem to have but one common
reporter. The editors have no idea o
the great importance Of this department
wbieh forms the basis of the local circu
lation. and slowly but surely works o.
the minds of the readers True, ther
are MANY GOOD articles IN the BERN
Journals. but on the whole they are to
heavy. too essay-like, 80 that the
vouid be more ft to be printed In
weekly or monthly than in daily pf
:, per. The volks Zeitung, cheap den
ocratic sheet, has about 30, 600 SUI
. scribers and the largest circulation; tn
Vossiche Zeitung, of the same politics
: tendency. some Is, 600 subscribers; an
, she Zukanft, radical organ, has u
|, ltnallest circulation, with not more ths
: 500 to 1000 subscribers. The averae
circulation of all the Berlin papers,
high estimate, amounts 70 apo
5000 subscribers. The hadaer
datsch, by the way, the best satlrlc n .,
9 and comic paper OF Europe, sells 4U,V
IL copies. Would it have been suocessf
e il had been dull and tamef Ioften she
g the Tribune to public men and newsp
J, ner editors OF this city. / never shi
d forget the stupidity incrednlous
d which one of them exhibited when g
IS nlained to him that you paid more thu
5, S5. 600 for your telegraphic dispatch
a of September 8. Not once, doz
D. times. / had to show a copy OF the IL
bune. of September l. 1t went nc
70 hand to hand, and was returned to I
d in a rather dilapidated state. did n
81 calculate upon the curiosity which {
In paper necessarily caused, but wished
q see the effect which it made on newsI
ne per editors. swell, that's grand, tina
y extraordinary, that's quite American,
u heard them e1claim, "but here sucn
P feat is out of the question" L
ne whyi I interrupted "BecaI
On we are too poor; we ms
IN not readers enough" ALI my rem'
en- strances were in vain, in vain all
Sc protests that a paper like the Tr1bu
re, had its time when it, too, could not
nd ford such heavy expenses; that oy
"a dustry, thrift and sagacity, step by stt
no Il had reached its present prosper
hut that to win, man must rlsK
ed avail himself of his opportunities, a
a., that the only secret OF q success
nd newspaper was to undo all Its comPt
ng tors in enterprising spirit and IN kt
lat perception Of the politaal needs
Tx t. stes of its public.
ef II is to be hoped that with the pr
Id, ress of Berlin the press too VIII lose
Pc proyinciL character, and assume lar
ng prouortions. A newspaper establish
Fps with 1OO, 900 thslers, on the Amen
Vn: system. would be an excellent nv
'ed ment, and great political benent
Germany.