The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-10-30
THE COMING JOURNAL.
What the Newspapers OF the Futur,
Will Be Like.

They had been speaking of the news
paper OF the future. how IL would be
made. the time that would be saved in
making IL and the more artistic shape
I IL 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 obseryant member OF the
Z group. lis the fact that the daily news
/ paper is showing a tendency TO en-
croach upon what we have regarded
as the province of the magazine while
J 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 tendencies2 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, 10 drift far out into the mag
az!ne held by publishing a world OF
feature matter with elaborate illustra-
tions.
> Special writers OF the very highest
type are now employed on the daily
papers. and they are grinding out the
character OF stun which formerly be-
longed exclusively 10 the magazine
field. On the other hand, the maya
zines have been showing a disposition
TO encroach somewhat on what was
supposed To be the province of the
newspaper We will be convinced e
this fact by rejecting upon the great
disasters of recent date. Magazines
have been as anxious 10 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 stun. 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 10 get and
handle the particular stuff which APP
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 men. with the news instinct
developed to a very high degree.
Here We End 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 encruach
upon the functions Of the newspaper.
will in time result in happy com
promise which will be of much bene-
TT 20 the reading public
Newspapers will be more careful
Of the facts they print. They will be
more accurate because they will en-
ploy a more reliable set OF men. They
will exact OF the men VINO 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 il happend and when IL 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 IL gets now"