The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1885-09-09
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Itisa little remarkable and slightly
ridiculous that the magazine editor does
not do any editing. He merely selects
and arranges matter for publication
which in great newspaper Offices Is In.
trusted to sui o,dinateS. This want Of
editing is painfully apparent in every is.
sue Of the magazines, where soleCisms,
mistakes Of fact. and blenishes result.
ing from sloyenly editing are only too
common. The systems Of newspaper
and magazine editing-if tho last de-
serves to DO called editing-are radio
ally different.
The newspaper editor, armed with q
relentless heart, an unainching hand,
ind blue pencil, goes through a man
uScript like q surgeon with a diSsectng
knife. He las besides his literary repu
tation at stake, like a magazine editor,
his business aud political interests also
for newspapers are strictly business
enterprises, which magazines are moi
always; there is more than one promi,
nent magazine in this country run by
a great publishing firm as an advertise
ment, and one or two as literary pas
times very much as other capitalists
keep yachts and trotters.
There is Of course, a very great differ.
ence in the manner OF the two sorts Of
editors. The newspaper editor must be
brief sometimes he must DO brusque.
He Is always polite II he is a first,
class editor, but his eye often wan
ders to the big lrazcn.faeed Clocl
hanging somewhere in tho office, BY
which everything is run, and when he
says his time is limited he is telling thu
truth; he knows the very minute when
the Clang Of the preSsei In the sub.cel.
lar Of the printing ollcc must begin.
The maya inc editor, on tho contrary
Is disposed TO DO conversational. III
has a whole month before him 10 ar
range the matter fora publication about
as big as the Sunday edition Of grea
New York daily, and as many month,
as no chooses to deliberate where tn
pictures shall 60 in an article on THE
probable Shape OF re Sea Cows Tail in
the Paleo, Ole Period" or Operation,
Before Tripoli In 1906, by Capt, Hal
yard and Commander Lanyard, U. s.
n, "and other subjects Of Contempora.
neous human interest,
The newspaper editor, on the con
trary, has about twenty four hours t
edit an article on the Spanish treaty
Tor example, going over the who'll
ground Of commercial treaties, the con
Stitutional rights Of house and senate il
treaty.making, its effect on the tariff
It's status in di erent sections Of th
country, the whole thing to DO com
pressed into thrce.quarters Of a column
with the certainty that II he slips VI
once, every one Of his esteemed contem
poraries will be bounding him Mex
morning, and that he will never
DO able to write another lin,
on tho subject Of CONNER
mercial treaties without being reminde,
In printed chorus, with the charming
franEncss Of newspaper men, that be /
a monumental john donkey, and thi,
continual grind going on every day ii
tho week and every week in the year
and a thousand other things Of as much
Importance as the Spanish treaty press
ing him; with literature and art demand.
ing 10 DO heard as much in q newspaper
as in a magazine, verify, the newspaper
editor Is born to ink and misery.
must again repeat that this typical cdi
tor belongs to a great and powerful
daily