Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-03-16
COMP ARSON OF
 NEWS SERVICE
Bulletin Service VS. As
 SOCiated Press.
Reliability and Superiority of Lat ter Universally Conceded by
 Press and Public.

Using an item published in the
 Journal Miner in which no mention
 was made of the. Herald or any other
 paper, the latter paper contained a
 lengthy diatribe comparing the asso-
 ciated press report received by the
 Journal Miner with the little batch of
 bulletins received by it. Among other
 things it says: 'The Journal Miner
 had nothing at all about the victory
 of the Jap fleet over the Russians at
 Vladivostok. '' The Journal Miner
 did contain a rumor about that al
 legged victory and the next day the
 rumor was denied in the following
 dispatch:
 "There is no truth in the reports
 that a Japanese fleet bombarded Vlad
 ivostok all day long yesterday. Ac- cording to the latest information the
 fleet simply showed itself and sailed away without firing a shot,"
 The"bulIetin news agency" sent out the news as an actual occurrence and never corrected its report afterwards. This is one of the features of the news agency from which the Herald re- ceived it's report. A rumor is sent out as an actual occurrence. Some times it proves correct but in nine cases out of ten it proves incorrect.
 During the Spanish h-American war the Journal Miner took the same ser vice just for the same reason that our contemporary is taking it. Because it could not get the associated press re- port. It kept the editor and the read CTS of the paper guessing all the time as to the correctness of the news. In many instances it would be all right, but in a great many others 1t would be all wrong.
 One notable instance of its enter prise in getting ahead of the asso- ciated press and all other news gath ering agencies, during the time the Journal Miner took it's bulletins, was the announcement of the death of Paul Kruger, president of the Trans vaal republic. That happened four years ago and to this day the asso- ciated press has not gotten on to the | fact that Kruger is dead. This "bul- | letin agency" within the past few | weeks has sent out to the papers talk ing its bulletins another notice of | PauI's death, making two reports to none for the associated press. This is a sample of the bulletin. Kruger still persists in not being dead.
 The Journal Miner does not pretend to say that only fake news is sent out by it, for such statement would not be true. The enterprise of any paper in taking those bulletins, where an press report is not obtain able is commendable. It shows dis position to do the best it can. If the Journal Miner was not a member of he associated press, and could not get it's report, it would give it's read ITS the benefit of those bulletins just IS it did during the Spanish-Ameri- l ,an war, but it would do also just as , t did then, refrain from making ( my boast as to their reliability.
 Our contemporary boasts of getting Jews earlier than associated press pa ,ers. 4 careful perusal of the issues | this boast, failed to dis lose any mention of the Russian tor edo fiotilla's attack on the Japanese c eet, in which one vessel on each side 1as lost, while associated press papers f the same date contained an account k f this sea battle. e