New-York tribune., 1881-09-07
CHARLES DUDLEY wARNEp's ADDRESS

1he newspaper is a private enterprise. II,
OBJECT Is to make money for its owner. Whatever
motive may be given out for starting newspaper
expectation Of profit by it is the one whether the
newspaper is religious, political scientific or literary
The exceptional cases Of devoted TO idea. OF
causes without regard profit are so few az not TO
aect the rule Commonly the cause Sect the party
the trade the deusOn tue idea its newspaper its
organ its advocate only when individual thinks he
can see a pecuniary return in establishing il.
The chei function Of the newspaper collect and
print the The second function TO eucidate the
news, and comment il, and show its relations A
third function is TO furnish reading matter to the general
public.
Nothing is so difficult for the manager rs to know
WHAT hews s inc instinct Tor 1t is sort OF sixth
10 discern of the collected no, only
what is most likely 10 interest the pnbic but what
phase and aspect of it will attract most attention
she relative Importance o 1t; 10 tell the day or
morning, and what II will want the fullest details OF
% and 70 meet that want IN advance requires peculiar
wants instant information. 1t easy enough when me
news is developed and everybody Is discussing H. for
the editor TO ia ia Bat Tho ygs printed
depends apon Pre-apprehensiOn of all this Scarcely
news is the attractive a1sngcment it, Re- enectiye
the Important nteEshoe identiSas the ss1as
'newsy," the other duh aud stupid.
AMERICAN AND FOREIGN JOURNALS.
In particularly aud oonpreheusiyeness of news col
ecing 1T may he admitted than tho erican news
papers for time led the world mean in the Drling
telegraph 10
make II general. And with TINS the old notion that
news Is made importantly by the fact OF its rapid
transmission the wire. The English Journals fo1
iowedspeey overlook and. OF the weathor ones
perhaps surpassed the American Ia the tele-
Sespn ana III the presentation OF some SORTS of local
news not OF casualties and snaI city and negAbOr-
nood events and social gossips nn very recently. but
certainly IN tho business OF the law the crimes
ana mishaps that come within police and legal super
vision Int leading pspers OF the German press though
s;no sH;0"s eorreSpondenec and in discus-
saoh OF . anorS, far less couur-
Tshive IN thelr news than the American or the English
Inc french Journals we to say are not
EswSpapers at all Ana this is we usa the word
Snth recently nothing has been Importance 10 the
~ Fcn E except himself; and what happened outside
~ fIahce not directly affecting his glory ms pro1it or
,s ud NOT Interest hun Hence, could no.
t woT % as the harricadoo of the journals
nave more 10 learn from the Paris than from a
others III they do not give what we call news locaI
news, events Casualties, the happenings OF The iaV
tbey do give ideas, opinions, they do li.cssss
politics, the socla drift, they give the rteSian
tual ferent OF Paris they supply the material ~,
Paris likes u talk 0ger-thc baciage OF IN, ouLarJ
the wit OF the salon, the sensation Iho
movement In literature and politics this may e ip,
portant IL be trivial it is commonly lnor ntr
esting than much OF what we call news.
WHAT is NEwSf
What IL ne~sf What ID II that intelligent public
should care to hear Of and talk about Run your eye