Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04
THE ACCURACY OF NEWS sERv

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mentioned editorially the excellence
of the service furnished from the field
of the Russo-Japanese war. The Cou-
rier receives the Associated Press dis
patches from the front, as do hun
dreds of other papers throughout the
country The object Of the Associated
Press is two-fold; to get all the news
and to get 1t all right. It's field of ac-
tivity is the world 1t has no limits
and therefore no trouble nor expense
is spared in securing the news for the
millions of people who read the papers
in the Associated Press.
The Associated Press correspond
ents at Mukden and st. Petersburg
have been making themselves famous
during the past few months and no.
tice has been attracted to them by
reason Of their ability and their trust.
worthiness. The following mention of
their work in the Leader of Richmond,
Va, is we'll deserved tribute on ac-
count of work we'll performed:
Congratulations to our esteemed
co-laborer, the Associated Press cor
respondent in Mukden; and here's hop.
ing that he came out of the hell Of
fire and steel and frenzied fighting men
with whole skin. He has done won
derful work and succeeded in convey
ing to the outside world, a remarkable
quantity of information. considering
his limitations.
He had to send his dispatches
seven thousand miles to st. Peters
burg through two Jealous censorships
intent on preventing anything unfav-
orable to the Russians from escaping.
How many languages his matter has
had to pass through we do not know.
Certainly the difficulties have been
tremendous and the expense has been
enormous. Remembering the condi-
tons, this mans achievements have
been among the most creditable in a
long and shining array of newspaper
achievements.
This entire war has been triumph
for the Associated Press. Virtually it
has been the one authentic source of
information from Toxic and st. Pc
tersburg, from Port Arthur and both
armies. The special correspondents
have been paralyzed and useless ex-
cept to their individual papers. They
have succeeded in sending out some
very interesting letters and magazine
articles and pictures by mail, but their
telegraphic news has been nothing.
The Associated Press has been en-
titled to as much credit for it's con-
servatism as for its actual achieve
ments. 1t has kept within the line of
the facts consistently.
we have never seen a stronger
contrast between the accuracy and
painstaking work of real, trained news.
paper men and the wild methods of
fedglings and takers that was pre-.
scented in the stories sent from st.
Petersburg during the rioting there By
the Associated Press and some of the
London and New York special CORES.
pondents.
THE accounts given by the Asso.
c1ated Press were confirmed in every
instance by the later developments
and the actual figures. With equal in.
variability the weird pipe dreams of
the special correspondents telling of
the universal havoc and slaughter were
contradicted."
The Courier, like all other Associ.
ated Press papers, is proud Of its war
news and its whole telegraph service
It is the best that is obtainable Judged
from every standpoint and by every
standard. 1t is reliable, complete and
UP to date