Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-01-14
THE NEWSPAPERS oE FRANCE.
The Opinions of the Two Mr. Pulitxsrk
 Decidedly Different Ideas-

Decidedly Different Idsas-
 Twas fin an English tailor shop the other morning and the proprietor, as a crowning argument in favor of bis sartorial pro ductions, produced pair of trousers flor Mir. Pulitzer" The size of the trousers attracted my attention, and . little inves- tigation led to the interesting discovery that there were two Mir. Pulitzers in Paris, and that while MT. Joseph Pulitzer has been living in state at the Hotel Bris- tol with bis fine apartment, his courier, etc., MT. Albert Pulitzer, of The New York Morning Journal, has also been hv- ing tn state, though more quietly, at the Grand Hotel, he too having his fine apart ment and his courier, which all goes to show: First, that Is great thing to have "large circulation" and second, that the Paris correspondent of The Morning Jour nal does not write the society notes in The Galgnani's Messenger.
 The opinions of these two eminent jour nalists on the newspapers of France are of course most interesting. MT. Joseph Pulitzer spoke as follows on the subject:
 "You want my opinion on French news papers' We'll, can give it to you very quickly. l think 1t ts simply disgrsceful the kind of thing which they produce here. They are newspapers in name, but newspapers with the news left out They print neither home news nor foreign news, fin fact they print nothing but stories and essays. They have no enterprise. Why this late disaster to the Champagne at Havre was hardly noticed by them. had to get the details from the scanty little English papers pointing to the Gahgnani and the Morning News). Now an American newspaper which understood its business would have had 6 man on the spot by the very 1rst train to interview tsae officers, the captain and the pas sengers, to get photographs of the scene, etc, and to send of complete account by telegraph, regardless of expense. No, sir, don't think much of French news papers, and, by the way, l don't think much more of their English rivals"
 Mir Albert Pulitzer has decidedly dt- ferent ideas on the same question "I know that 1t is the fashion" he said, "to condemn French journals on the ground that they are deficient in what we call 'news.' Of course it is evident that in this respect they are long way behind us; but attribute 1t not to any lack of snter- prise on the part of editors and proprie- tors-far from it-but to the fact that they recognize that the general demand s for something quite different. People in France have not got that terrible thirst for 'news' which consumes us at home; they are not at all in . hurry to know about accidents and crimes before it is necss- sary, and even then they don't want a great mas of sickening details. In many ways their tastes are more elevated than ours. For example, The Figaro will print two columns on a new play by Alexandrs Dumas, and will employ one of the most distinguished literary men in the country to write the criticism There Is another great difference; in France all the great write1 contribute to the newspapers, and these men are paid ss much ss s1O,OOO to S12, 900 year. The result is that first class French newspaper becomes really vehicle for the transmission of the highest order of literary, scientific and artistic thought, and certainly that is very much moro than we can say of our American papers, even the best of them. ."-Psris Cor. Philadslphis Times