Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-08-25
THE JOURNALISTIC BLATHER.
SKITE.

erskite. We did not make the charg,
in moment of displessure with oul
contemporary, but rather after ye@rs
of careful reading and close observa
ton. The very first copy OF th,
paper that we saw convinced us that
it was perfect model of the blather'
skite in journalism. 1t was then
under different editorial management
from now. The change recently
made seems to be the worst misfor-
tune that we'll could have befallen
The News. Ii is now worse blather.
skite than any patent outside country
weekly that we ever saw or heard of.
1t may be necessary for the sake OF
perspicuity to exp ain what is meant
10y blatherskite before proceeding
further. Webster defines the term as
being an Americanism meaning a
clustering, talkative fellow, with a
painful plenitude of words and a
sorrowful paucity of ideas. As APP
piled to Il newspaper, the epithet has
by general acceptance a still more
definite Significance, and means a
wild, raving print, which Is never
guilty of sylioglsuc line of argu-
mcut, that aims not at original ideas
on any subject, but covers up its de-
ticiencies in maze of ILL
chosen words, The blatherskite
always ailudes to our country as
"these United States of America,
born amid the travails oil a war in
which the immortal Washington
flashed his sabre in the SUI. and nur-
turcd 10y the fostering care of free
men for hundred years" The
bIatherskite can easily present a
column ot such stuff as this, and has
the atfrontery 10 expect an intelli-
gent public to pay for the privilege
of reading it. The most trivial pre-
text is sufficient to send ii off in a
psroxysm Of Mandy PANTY, wIshy
washy, iiimsy and diluted sentimen-
tality. We have a case 10 point Our
contemporary The News. in the alb
sence of any subject that would
come within the narrow radius of its
comprehension, takes Sitting Bull
by the horus aAd maunders As fol-
lows;
Fully impressed with his own i'm
portancc he Sitting Ball not onsy
threatens to invade British soil,
after finishing the Americans" but
he has the alfrantery 10 call upon the
Empress Queen of Great Britain to
pursue policy Of Intervention in our
Indian war. Precisely what Queen
Victoria has got to do with our home
affairs. we fail 10 see; but that is Of
no consequence.
This isa portion Of column of
the same sort of puerile nonsense. 1t
is useless to point out its ahsurdiiies.
They are too plain to need calculation.
The article is the very apex of the
bla,herskite in writing. \ boy ten
wears old who could not do better
ought to have ink and paper forever
withheld from him. An editor who
would abtrude such rawlings before
the public in country where there
are free common schools should be
shamed out of countenance aud
compelled 10 subside to some ranch.
Does not the astute gentleman of The
News know tina, before Sitting Bulb
ever mentioned the possibility OF the
Queens protection (if, indeed, he
ever did sol the British Parliament
took cognizance of his trouble and
listened 10 resolution authorizing
an inquiry into the Sioux troublesl
Baiherskite writers are scarcely
ever noticed for their mistakes,
Treating always Of the mos, super
fetal generalities, in verbose fra
volity. without venturing upon the
uncertain ground of originality in
thought or style, they seld IN get
aground. Aud when they do &c;
aground IL amounts u So little that
no one pays any aitentioa t. them.
The News should be preservedr fol
the ben,ii, of the rising generation
as sample of the lightsome in jour
nalism.
Another serious accident hap
pened at Mackey aud Fairs vesier