Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-11-15
PLANS IDEAL NEWSPAPER.

PLANS IDEAL NEWSPAPER.
Rev. Parlshurst Interests Syndicate of
Wealthy Men In the Project.
New York, Nov. 15.--A newspaper
that will tell the truth; newspaper
that will print all the news; news
paper that cannot be swayed by aaver-
Users or business; a newspaper of linz
itless enterprise and without fear: Il
newspaper that will lead public opin>
Ion; a newspaper that the people will
believe; a newspaper beyond the reach
of patronage. In short. an ideal Jour
nal that no party can buy and no In
terest printing all the great
news of the world and telling the abso-
ute truth regardless of friends or foes
The business Office or Wall street. with
out randering or padding. such is the
newspaper that Rev. DR.. Parkhurst
says a syndicate of wealthy men pros
pose starting in New York.
DR. Farkhurst Gives Hint.
In 4 frank discussion of the sub
ject In his library DR.. Parkhurss said
that such newspaper must be up-tos
late in every respect. With the best ma
chinery and newsgathering organize-
ten, and as much money must be be-
14iiia ~ as any Oh lHe great GAINES VI
America. He said several men of
wealth were seriously discussing the
establishment of such paper. He
made the statement also that q plan
was on foot to establish an ideal the
atsr, devoted exclusively to the legiti-
mate drama and eliminating all that
Is objectionable from plays and the
ste sc. In other words, only the lofty
aEG noble FERNS of dramatic entertain
Il {e1,7
nov weary end disguised with re-
puIsiNe pays.
This is an important statement, that
lit is proposed to establish newspaper
10 tel! the truth" was suggested.
Well, it is being considered now; I
s,:ow 1T "
Can you name some of the points
that such newspaper would cover?"
Would Have to BE Enterprising,
The ideal paper would be paper
with just as much enterprise as our
i-.oss eaterprising papers at present
Aase. The paper must be enterprising,
Otherwise it is dead before it is born.
1T lnlat have the news. You take
market reports. In all papers they have
10 lie truthful. Now when the same
efGthinlEess is observed with regard to
ti.cr matters as is observed with mar
ct reports, then people are going to
-now what they are reading. often
car people say: I find this and that in
&c paper. Therefore, / know 1T is not
s...e. OF course. that Is an eSaggera-
elon, and yet there Is q very large eie-
..isnt of truth In it,"
The ideal paper, Of course. must
.ontain news. What would this ideal
per 90, for instance, with press re-
polts Which come in when there is no
immediate way of verifying their &C
suracy?"
III is one thing to be liable to error,
50 ANYBODY is; it is another thing de-
.iberately to pad your news when you
re going to DO 1t for q purpose, and
because the carrying out of that pur-
2csc Will pay.
1t is llnqGsstioncd, or rather, an as
serted fact, that the newspapers are
not leading public opinion. Here are
lour or five or six papers, and if man
wants to know what is going on he
KS got to read them all. and then he
LAS got to strike a mean average be-
-Msen the lot. After all, you cannot
gu must Strike an average between
-.-e lot in order to get at anything. 1t
8 the law OF averages the reader has
,Qt to respect"
How would such paper classify
the news? what would it leave out?"
Not Necessarily Non-PartIsan.
II do not know that 1t would neces-
sarily exclude paper from Identify
ing itself with given party. / am
lot sure that it would, but the object
IF q partisan paper now is not to tell
the whole truth. but to tell only such
portions CT the truth as will be favor
able to the party represented. If. for
example, YOU are republican and
want to get the whole truth. you have
to get it by reading something besides
a republican paper.
Then, in regard to matters of news.
Partisan papsls will give you only
what Is Favorable to their side upon
every political question. They will not
give YOU the rest. Telling only a part
OF the truth is often equivalent to tell
which il is essential you should know
a order to get at the whole truth.
lcliiitg half suppresses the rest.
Partisan papers labor to tell you
only half the truth. When say par
.issn papers, it may not be simply In
regard to matters of politics; it may
&c In regard to other matters just as
we'll. Wherever q paper has an inter-
ost it is run for the promotion of that
interest. Whenever paper is run for
inc promotion OF en- interest 1t will
aold back Just SO much as will stand In
he way of the promotion of that inter-
est. whether it be politics or whether
Il be business.
II know that paper which will tell
.ae truth is being very seriously con-
sidcSed, as there is also being consid-
:rea the matter of the establishment
If an endowed theater. This paper
would cover all the ground covered by
he New York papers. 1t would be
aCjtfa1 10 any 0f7f. of them in resources
1t would be very foolish to undertake
o run a paper in any other way. 1t
would be dead before 1t was born
PORTO RICO NOT FOREIGN.