The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-01-31
THE e)OMIN GU OURNAL, ]: B /:
WHAT NEWSPAPERS OF THE Fu-
= tRE WILL BE~LlkE.. =: y J
"a Merging Of the Magazine and the
ID Daily Papsr, Seems ems the Most sd Prob-
able Some of the Signs Which
Point to This End. ',~F>-~'s> ',>'5''


making it and the more artistic shape
it would assume as the result of i'm
proved methods of doing newspaper
work in the mechanical departments.
-"0ne curious feature of the business"
said one 0bserYanta member Of the
group, Is the fact that the daily news
paper is showing tendency to en-
croach upon what we5shaveztregarded
as the province of the magazine, while
the magazine has been showing 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 world of
feature matter with elaborate illustra-
tions.
Special writers; ,o1f the very highest
type are. now employed on the daily
papers, and they are grinding out the
character Of stuff which formerly be-
1onged exclusively to the magazine
field. On the other hand, the maya
zines have been showing a disposition,
to .encroachs somewhat on. what was
supposed to be the province of the
newspaper. We will be convinced Of
this fact by reflecting upon the great
disasters Of recent date:a3 Magazines
have been as anxious to get men on
the scene as. newspapers, and they
have shown disposition to 4publish
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 stun which ap-
pears vin. their olumns::t Frlhis issthe.
newspaper idea, and the men who are
at the head of the more progressive
magazines of the country are good
newspaper men, with the news instinct
developed to a very high degree. f.
Here we find a peculiar condition,
which, in my judgment, will finally
bring out a mergence> of the news
paper and the magazine. Newspapers
after a 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 sof the functions of the magazine,
will in time result, in a happy com
promise which will be of much bene-.
at to the reading public" 1>.'' 49, j.,
:. 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:
scfupulous 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 of5taking 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 viii get a 4
better and more reliable and more sat:
isfactory service 81: ~ from IS .nrewspapers.
than it gets now. s+sa -.%ssi 4, : :;
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