The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-05-30
THE EDITOR.
A Few Remarks on This Strange Individual
and His Methods.

The HERALD, too, like the Republic,
feels called upon at this season, when
news is hard to get, to preach little
sermon on the subject "The Editor and
His Manner of Gathering News To
the average reader, the editor of a news
paper doesn't amount to a jug full of
water; it is the news the reader wants,
and not narration of the trials and
tribulations OF the person who has to
gather the information and mould it in
to language that will present an intelli-
gible idea of something that has chap
pened." The editor is plastic creature in
a sense he is thing that can be chan
died" nine times out of ten, and if he
cannot he is not wanted in a community.
His personality counts for nothing it is
the newspaper that he runs that counts,
when it comes down to dollars and cents.
and spit upon him and smote him in the
face and all such, but when it comes to
pushing the saw" with him, or "swip-
ing a jack pot" he is with you every
time, and forgets all the little back slaps
you ever gave him. This is not all the
the editor generally knows enough to
write an item-and the most of them can
do it a cheap" more grammatical than
the purveyor of knowledge in colleges !;
he has no sense of judgement, or pro-
priety, nor moral courage; he is the sa-
trap of the nillie-willies and the marplot
OF the scandal-mongers in him you will
find nothing that appeals to the roman
tic side of human nature nor has he got
an atom OF keenness that any other man
possesses. In the grating business,
which is a fine art these days in this
country he stands at the head of the
class, and whenever he is trapped" he
does not remain long at the bottom, but
on the first favorable wind he blows back
to his logical place. Oh, yes, he is all
this, and more.
In the art OF gathering news he is a
sleuth hound par excellence. His main
object is to find out what his neighbors
are doing, and he dearly loves to tell lies
Nothing gives him greater pleasure than
the making of mistakes, and the height
Of his ambition is to see a man, or even
Il woman for that matter, bite his lips
and say, "they get nothing right, when
seeing his name misspelled in the news
10 Il
ly has mind as blank as that of
Mann Nam, and when bit OF informal
ton is thrust into the alembic of his
head it comes out like the clay from
potters mixer. All these things and
more make up the parts of an editor.
Though, in all seriousness, he endeavors
to get things right. One informant will
tell him one thing one way and another
will tell him the same thing in an alto
gether different light. Jack Jones will
say, "the horse ran over the bridge"
and Jim Smith will say the aforesaid
beast fell over. Now, which are you to
believer Lawyer Smiles will give You
his side of the story and Attorney Seri-
BUSINESS will put an entirely different
version to it. Now, to illustrate in a
brief way just how editors make mis-
takes, the following two line local"
which appeared in recent issue of the
N2epublic, will suffice:
kCol. Turner OF Spokane spent all OF
week in North Yakima"
is no such man in Spokane,
1her place, so far as known. 1t is
-ntion to cast any reflections
Nplic by quoting the above
Dr. I'd as a sample to show how
GUS editor will at times
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