Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-10-26
The Newspaper Bore.

There are many things that the ex-
perienced and practical editor abhors
and detests, but which he cannot al
ways avoid.
He dislikes the professional in
terviewer," the man who writes out
interviews with himself about him
self and for himself and airs himself
on every little question of the day
where he can possibly wedge himself
in for the benefit of himself. Cut
out the professional interviewer.
There is another class of men
equally as Objectionable to the practi-
cal editor as the professional inter
viewer-the boomer. The fellow who
booms everything, and invents big
newspaper stories to make himself
the hero or promoter, the great Il
am, of hundred enterprises. Pass
him up.
Then there is the fellow who
! works the newspapers for the ben
nfit of himself or some company or
concern with which he is connected.
He will furnish you copy ready made
for the printers-who puffS himself
and his concern, gets everything in
free under the deluslve but tislnspar-
ent cruise thatit is good reading mat
ter, but never spends a dime with
the paper that gives him the most
booming. Fire the man who works
the papers.
Then comes the egotistical ass, the
man who magnifes his own impor
lance, and imagines that everything
he sees. hears or thinks should have
prominence in the daily papers, and
he will bore you to death with his
vanity if once allowed entrance iato
your columns. Dodge the egotist.
And now comes the man with
write up of some Virginia or North
Carolina concerns with which he is
connected, who wants yoI to print
as news item, when it is nothing
more nor less than an advertisement
for his house, in which is included an
eulogistic compliment to himself
He is shocked when informed that
such matter is always charged for,
and cannot see why such Tive mat
fer should not be inserted free, and
he goes off huffy if you fail to yield
to his demand, for it assumes that
before the interview is closed. Club
him on the spot.
Enter the politician, with gentle
manner and voice of velvet. He has
consented to enter the race, ard
would be glad to have his views pre-
sented on the living, burning issues
of the day" He would like them
printed, that the people may see
where he stands. But it never oc-
ours to him that matter Of this sort
is purely personal, and of no special
interest to anyone else. He believes
in free unfettered press, and is
willing to take everything free that
he can get. You would shock HIM
were you TO intimate that such
matter should be paid for at so
much line.
Then we have the man who comes
in and tells you how to run the pa
per-that you should advocate this
or that measure, roast that corpora
tion or skin the other; that you are
not independent enough. are perhaps
too bold that you should show up
certain parties, or shut your eyes to
other things-that the paper is not
run ouri ght lines, and if you would
only do this, or that or the Other
thing, that it would succeed better.
Repudiate and ignore all such men.
There are other newspaper fiends, |
men who haunt printing offices and
try to work them for their own bene |
fit, and they may receive atten ton
at another time il these columns.
In the meantime. the above is sub |
mitted for the benefit of those who |
fail to see themselves as others see
them.
All newspapers like news, real live |
and interesting news, but no paper
wants articles in which the ego pre-
and the news feature is
subsidiary and from the manufacture
ers of such siush may the good Lord
protect US. Clarion Ledger.