Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-09-18
THE COMING JOURNAL
WHAT NEWSPAPERS OF THE Fu.
TURE WILL BE LIKE,
A Merging Of the Magazine and the
Daily Paper Seems the Most Prob.
able-some Of the Signs Which
Point to This End.

They had been speaking of the news
paper of the future, how it would be
made, the time that would be saved in
making it and the more artistic shape
1t would assume as the result of i'm
proved methods of doing newspaper
work in the mechanical departments.
"One curious feature of the business"
said one observant member of the
group. lis the fact that the daily news
paper Is showing tendency to en-
croach upon what we have regarded
as the province of the magazine, while
the magazine has been showing a ten
dency to usurp the functions of the
newspaper. Now what will be the out
come OF these counter tendencies? We
can do no more than guess at the re-
suit. We have the facts before us SO
far as the tendencies are concerned.
Newspapers have shown a tendency,
especially in the larger editions, for
instance, to drift far out into the mag
azine field by publishing a world of
feature matter with elaborate illustra-
lions.
Especial writer's of the very highest
type are now employed on the daily
papers, and they are grinding out the
character of stuff which formerly be-
longed exclusively to the magazine
field. On the other hand, the maya
zines have been showing disposition
to encroach somewhat on what was
supposed to be the province of the
newspaper. We will be convinced of
this fact by rejecting upon the great
disasters Of recent date. Magazines
have been as anxious to get men on
the scene as newspapers, and they
have shown a disposition to publish
as much exclusive information as pos
sible. They want original stuff, some
thing that has not been handled thor
oughly by the daily papers. They want
pictures which have not been used.
They want to be the first to get and
handle the particular stuff which ap-
pears in their columns. This is the
newspaper idea, and the men who are
at the head of the more progressive
magazines of the country are good
newspaper 1uCAA, Will Lie 1fCW0 111SI1ACL
developed to very high degree.
Here we find peculiar condition
which, in my judgment, will finally
bring out mergence of the news
paper and the magazine. Newspapers
after while will be published in the
form of certain magazines, in which
event they will become higher types
of the art of printing. The result of
the magazines tendency to encroach
upon the functions of the newspaper,
and the newspapers tendency to usurp
some of the functions of the magazine,
will in time result in a happy COM
promise which will be of much bene-
st to the reading public.
Newspapers will be more careful
of the facts they print. They will be
more accurate because they will en-
ploy more reliable set of men. They
will exact of the men who grind out
the news for them somewhat of the
scrupulous precision of history. At
the same time the magazines will drop
the bias which too frequently makes
them unreliable. Personal opinion
will be tabooed. The writer will quit
the business of taking up this side or
the other. He will quit trying to force
his opinions upon the reading public
He will simply tell what happened,
how it happened and when it hap
pened without bias or favor one way
or the other. The result will be
wholesome and the world will get a
better and more reliable and more sat
isfactory service from newspapers
than it gets now"