The weekly Louisianian., 1874-04-18
THE PRESS OFN1lg'W, OF
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WHAT THEY REPRESENT.

WHAT THEY REPRESENT.
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There are six daily papers pub
hshed in New Orleans, to-wit: Th,
Picayune, Bee, Times, Republican,
German Gazette and Bunctiia. Jour.
nails Ike other entities, are greater il
their relative than their persona
qualities. They are important, no.
so much for what they are, as fol-
what they stand for.
Consequently one OF the sensitive
points in journalism is: it's repre-.
sentative character.
It is probable that no city car
furnish q series Of journals that
claim more, and represent less thar
the city of New Orleans
The Republican,. the official journal
and the chief paper Of its party,
whatever else it stands for, repre-
sents the authorities of the. State o.
Louisiana, and has therefore q
super-added influence and import
ance to that which legitimately be-
longsto it, on the score Of its gener-
ally well considered AMI well digest
ed political and commercial articles.
The Bee and Bulletin, modest and
not very pfetentious journals, repre-
sent the honest, prejudiced, anti
Republican classes, and the hard
poverty-stricken, and res
pectable white element.
No appreciative man can read,
these handsomely gotten up and
ably conducted journals, without in.
stinctiyely feeling that they lack
and that the comfort of the
proprietors is sacrificed to SECURE the
respectable appearance of the jour-
mails. They are not always just in
their judgments nor charitable in
their estimates of opponents, but
they impress us as honest and able,
and even the strokes of their severi-
~ make the wounds Of q friend.
journals, if they survive the
and the neglects Of the
Company, will exercise a
healthy influence on the body poll
tic and do good.
The Pacayune, the Times and
Gazette, especially the two former,
ire supposed and claim to represent
the Oldest and best of this God
community. They are the
opponents of that non-descript
class, who are without political
or convictions, the So
merchant princess and cap
of New Orleans.
The truth is, these journals repre-
,ent neither wealth nor votes. but
simply their owners, and, despite
heir pretensions, they do not lead,
,ut follow the crowd, and are not
specially particular as to the charac-
er Of the leadership, so that ont Of
he prejudices and passions to which
hey pander, grows an increased
,dvertising list.
They are not the mouth pieces Of
he people, but attractive simply for
heir news, gossip. and scandal, and
re in journalism what the broker
3 in trade, not producers nor
realtors of public opinion, but sim
ly middle men, trading on the
Of the public.
These journals are of The good
"good Devil" order, and are
OF particular as to whom their
is given 60 they put
'oney in. their purse.
They especially affect the cham
ionship, not of the ordinary vaga.
ond and criminal, but of the re-
rascal, making that an
irregularity" in the latter, which
ley would call a crime in the
'rmer.
Editorial ability is not lacking, in
lese journals, but the management
vicious the vice consisting in an
sumption Of an independence not
possessed, and an impartiality
rely ever exercised, and the set
ID purpose to utalize the press, 4
+ purely personal ends. |,
In view of the pretentious super /
.li0I1aness and imnn1onco. nror ,