The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-01
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newspaper reporters and editors have to
DC. There is such "a thing as the
Journalistic tempera ulslif'' There is such
thing as the nose Of news" bv which
term is meant 4 quick. practically instau-
taneous appreciation OF what is news and
row ipuch value ore piece OF news has
"heh compared with another piece OF
hews iaat comes In ~ the same time.
This faculty OF knowing what npws fs
and OF weighing its relative value and i'm
poFtance is closely allied to another
equally necessary. naIneay, the faculty Of
SEEING where good piece az news may
ne dug out and brought 10 the sllrface
rsSht in the nick OF time when Il Is mos.
interesting and valuable. I am inclined
10 tmnk that this gift OF news-hu~siDg- IS
oofh WIN some men. ard that they make
the best journalists in the rerertorial and
EDITORIAL sense. Aad II this gift is not a
part OF the Young mans natural enujp-
nleaf, II he does no. have /. keen and all
awe sympathy with tie events OF the
gay a. they present themselves evcgy-
morning ana evening then / advise him ~
Try some ether occupation: for / doubt -
the SIT Is ever acquired by any amount
OF industry. VIXEN the man IS NOT naturally
bult that way.
II requires = very broad and comnre-
heDsire mental taste To be an enieieu:
member of a stafr OF newspaper writer's
Men whose minds naturally tend to son-e
one hns u thought should avoid the news
paper Held. because newspaper * A
Kaleidoscope IN which the topscs 10 he
written about are changing every dav
Ipday H8r Is the foremost tome. next
week thu klcndiNe Viii he at the front
again. ara . little later IL may l4e that
yachting or baseball viii be the au-absaril-
'nz theme Saddenly, in she fau the
GENES NiH shift and politics viii be the
S'spie news of the day
tiea.. !, follows that a ncwsnar.-
vF-tr nA9 aims % rise 70 any N the
a5zaar editorial positions must have y
~i5" rang. not oaiy 81 information, hi.
- @tsr aat.ly l}e must he ab5a Ia know,
sou-etHs'E o. great many things rather
tHt2 to knos ary enc thing ngofouodtv
H@ su@t 20 abba 70 switch hls .rain *
fa#teat frau eHe ty2ck - another sud-
@Fs.N. aH1 te Threw MS pen wlfa Some
fsstt~ Hf equal .rtell,gruc> ard spirit
Vpoa hat. a dozsu different subjects WIKI
tn tae sA.fe week. II fol lws, therefore.
l@..t su>r.Ss as p v-i;sr for The daily press
7Hi D. greatly beload by vide FATHER Than
deep veaaiC[. : 90 nos s1esn by ghjS Sd
saF taet .he writing journalist shou;i
N-o~ -2 ttt.s ~ everything and nothing
much Aut on,y % say that il ne 3s deep
~ roa8 ana thoroughly Informed or ere
TOPIC oal,--sSy On politics, fof example
he nj sever achieve success as al AL
To'3a3 s%ypapeg man.
! think 10 yoans man contemplating A
cageer IS "a -,por;er ard editor WI make
any mistake in laying foundation by
course az reading which VII asQaalns h..3,
aFS'. ~tth the history OF his own country:
sss'oEf'iy. With the history Of his own STAKE
ara cay. thlrdy, with tn history - Eng
t2nG. and taurta'y with general know
le~tse Of TIRE present condition of The i,ssa-
- t.8Foi-etn lsst.aas es1ogs&1 % enable
RIM - twel t4sr b. - informed co-re7-liv
IS - tae.T relative topa-atlc,s. wealth ar
s<Foaifres- sn& tl3@ general GTifl 81 shse~
present lolfFhs in rsssgiosI 80 car on g..
f"7@Ee tsofgtsss ~ close reading. giving 20
u. arsla th'es - -four hoags q Oar, making