New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-03
NEWSPAPER BLINDERING.
RECENT MISTAKES AND NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
OF THE ASSOCIATED PREss-ARE THE
FOREIGN DISPATCHES "rADDED'?

RECENT MISTAKES AND NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
or THE ASSOCIATED PREss-ARE THE
FOREIGN DISPATCHES "rADDED"'
From The Pittsburg Press.
Wo reprinted the ether day from The Rochester
| IN. ~ Union and Advertiser an article showing
the most wonderful record for laundering that was
| ever made b., anybody. This article referred to
the great number OF erroneous statements that mad
been put out durii the months OF July and August
by the Chicago organization styling itself the AS
ISOLATED Press"
In this article. however. nothing was said OF the
alleged foreign service OF the Associated Press.
The dispatches furnished to our contemporaries
by that news concern have often amused us 10y
their palpable padding Nothing could be more
stiIted or Tore obviously the result OF system
OF elaboration grown, with the decrease In the
cost OF cabling genuine news to be almost oDsoe &c
In the matter OF handling European news OUTSIDE
OF TIE offices OF these Western amateurs. -
Rochester contemporary should have overlooked
the most Migrant example OF news ialS'cn,,o ,h %
s,immer July IL sent out from ChicaGo a report
that a collision had occurred between the United
States Regular Troops and the strikers at Forty,
ninth and Loomls SITS and that the soldiers had
fired on the mob. and that twenty persons had
boards at o'clock In the evening. and passcrs-b by
read 1t with blanched faces ana ihe apprshehSiVe
II this report had been true the situation In chi
cago certainly justified any one who read the news
upon time- that were fiii o, dongcr humiliation
and sorrow. But. fortunately. this news, Ike many
other reports that have been Illuminated by the
same reckless II not wicked. agency, Wa without
foundation tie simple truth being th.t the hring
vas done By the militia and no one was kil%i.
article published hy The Rochester un.ou and Al
'crtiser. matter tnHt shoud cr.htc IN me
minds Of newspaper owners the sravcst apprehen-
s on fnl;h fsr sey nre gathered from great va-
riety OF sources and ut remote points, and the op-
portun,ies for verincauon by the individual news
.ynrv newsp"pcr has for the snbstantiation Of the
u.u hos I'm
hcstion OF telegrsplic reports IL i'npraciicahlc
A cIoudbu,s, In british Columbia may wreck 4
train OF even ~ exclusive people as the bo lonians
a strike on Is something which the most intelll-
gent editor might accept as true; the reported
appearance Of the torpedo-boat Ericsson in the
calm waters Of the Delaware would not be an
extraordinary circumstance; an extensive ana
alarming Are In Chicago. which city holds the
record FOR the most extensive ana alarming fire in
modern times Is not story expected 10 arouse
Pherson vas about 10 tender his resignation .youi
deceive The average Telegraph 'ditor because an
other Scna tor. Ir Edmunds. OF Vermont resigned
his seat suddenly and without notice to his most
Florence Pullman to Prince Isenburs Birstein IS
an Item OF news that would generally be accepted
II It came from Source thought to be trust
Therefore having the newspapers in a position
to them In good faith and without an opportunity
for yerifcation, the press association which reck
lcssly II not with malice afore,honCht. mlseads
the newspapers which support II by their contribu
lions to It's treasury Is guilty Of a crime against
It's friends. And worse than this. IL is guilty OF
every one newspaper that is deuded and. In the
language OF the street made monkey OF. by the
news organization In which It reposcs confidence
purchase these newspapers are imposed upon by
heinz made the recipients OF an amount Of msin-
immediate tendency and annoying 10 the last de-
gree In It's permanent effects.