The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-23
QUANTITIES OF NEWS.

A sample of the Cheyenne SUMS
method of editing the telegraph reports
may be found in its Issues of Thursday
and Friday of this week. In the two
papers nearly a column and a half of
space was devoted to New York politi-
cal news, Thursdays issue containing
a detailed account of the petty bicker-
ings of the leaders Of the republicans at
Saratoga, and of the embarrassing pre-
liminary work of the convention. The
article ended with a report Of the first
ballot, and no mention was made Of the
nomination Of Judge Folger on the sec
ond. The LEADER Of the same day
gave the results Of the work of four
state conventions in the space of o
third of a column, printing the full
tickets nominated in each state. 1t an
nounced the nomination Of Folger for
governor of New York, a piece Of news
which, as the upshot of q bitter cam
paign having a direct bearing on ma
tional politics, was Of great interest to
politicians everywhere, and of which
the Sun contained no notice.
In Fridays Sun, Folger's nomination
was not announced, but under the
heading of New York Democrats
i'll an dispatch purPorting TO come from
Syracuse, the reports from the Sarato-
ga and Syracuse republican and demo
oxaffoA aarrnnffnnC u-prn 1an1Nuinhn IN
together in a manner that makes the
Sun as a newspaper ridiculous. Re-
publicans of national fame, such as G..
S. Hoskins and Hamilton Fish, jr., are
represented as being balloted for as
candidates for lieutenant governor in
the democratic convention, and the re-
publican platform is printed under the
heading and date line which refer to.the
democratic c%ouventio n.
The two issues of the sun in ques-
ton contain between three and four
columns of political news. The LEAD
Err printed in less space than a column
every essential fact contained in the
SUMS Ealf-page.
The Suns telegraph editor not only
the special train containing Lorne and
Louise had a slight collision last week,
the SUMS head line for the item was,
"The Vice Royal Train Demolished,
the dispatch itself stating that the train
was detained but fifty minutes. a few
weeks ago the Sun published an account
of the riots in Corea under the heading,
Revolution in Japan" thereby sug-
costing the idea that its library con-
tains no better maps than the railroad
map in the big dead head advertise
ment or its third page. The other day
the Sun printed in full a sensational
story said to have been told by the wife
of Engineer Melville to a reporter re-
garding her husbands desertion Of her,
when by the associated press report of
the same day the news vas given of u re-
lapse of Mrs. Melville into her former
unfortunate state of mind, a para
graph that this paper printed.
The Sun believes in splurge, display,
sensational head lines, and, above all,
quantity. The LEADER aims at pub
fishing in condensed form all the new
interesting to the people of this region.
1t relies OF the common sense of the
public, and will not foist on it quantity
only, when quantity and quality both
car be given.
The SUMS news of every day is what
it itself announced it to be on Thurs
day in q head line, 1.-The Usual ALA
Porida." Perhaps the ingenious mis-
spelling of the Italian phrase vas the
fault of the typesetter perhaps Its
source was the same as in the numerous
other cases of ~mis-editing quoted above
in /" muddle-headedness.'