New-York tribune., 1908-11-09
LORD NoRTHCLIFFE's VIEWS.
Has His Study Been Confined to Our Yellow
/ Journals

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
/ Sir. After listening at the Pilgrims dinner ths
other night TO Lord Sorthclifrss astonishing c1ar-
! acterizaton OF foreign news in American faPers
/ ] have ever since been expecting 70 s4e Tie
1 Tribune or some other paper make the reply 70
him which perhaps courtesy prevented some one
OF the many Journalists present from oeilVertng
az the table. May 7 trespass upon your "a 1zols
space 10 say that. q long tirae reader OF ths
best American newspapers. can only account Tor
Lord NorthcIiffe's remarks the sUppositon that
he has been an exclusive student OF the WORST
II has baen said that when Lord North-ihs f-st
ACQUIRED The Daily Mall he made a careful
study Of the leading papers OF the World visiting
France Germany Its1y and the Cnirsd States %
examine into the methods % each eountry- Vhat
could he have studied here give hin This view
of our English news:
When I come -he-e-as an happy % say thst
and especially SUNDAY cable dispatches from Lon
don. and I see that England is chieAy PeoPled o
4Ts e11szfng socfstv ladies' Fashionable beauti.s
whose names and antics are recorded and whose
phorozraphs taken often twenty -fve years ago. DO
steady service very regularly -, .,.
wonder II # ever occurred = the EsnlleTnen
who send these Sunday cables that tne-e must ce
some other people over tners 70 eoIlo1c- -s-s -
her cotton mills. maintain her 1Isrcantis hee.
carrying sevsu-tsnths OF the worla go zo-s s..-5
shipping yards. and q navy tha1 nes '7s1
OF al times?
Doubtless great mass Of the stuff Re describes
is r,rfn-ad in the cheap and NASTY" press q -ns
land picture America as a land o. tornados. gra--
and the .unwritten law he says I re1nsrnoer
noting a Few months ago. The1 New 1orA -
deep in the discussion OF the possible rejec'ion G
Governor Hughes OF bank rehs bilitation or c1l On
transfers and other inportan tsubiscts that Ire
London Daily Mail" gave its chief attention 70 a
visitation OF white butterflies which vas said 70
have paravzed business here. and 70 alleged ro-
over the wearing OF a sheath skirt But vsnf-
,1-e to assert that th4 more influential papers-hoss
which are read BY other than vulgar. empty headed
persons whose only interest IS N freashao oit1aly
give the public Just such cables recouu-tng he
progress OF foreign Civilization n art science, II
dustry literature and politics as r. suggests Ger
tanly TIE TroUne's letters and cables from London
and Paris do so in a high degree The foreign
news in The Sun and The Evening Post is
likewise meant for intelligent people and deals win
important affairs. The Times perhaps. contains
more OF the froth which Lord Sorthclife dspre-
Gates but it, too gives besides much attention % ~"
larger movements In Boston, Philadelphia and
Chicago also Lord NorthcliTe would fad something
besides s1nragettes. etc
II looks as II Lord Northclife had only taken -
pains to read the cheap. sensational papers Of his
own well this country; in fact as Il he had
lust emerged from the slough Of yellow Journal
ism and was under the deIusi0n that The first
glinlner Of light and suspicion that there could be
better things were a momentous discovery OF his
own undreamed Of By anybody else He made
naive confession this effect when he said that Re
had planned 10 have his new acquisition The Lon
don Times" describe the Metropolitan sIusecn %
Art which he had visited with interest only and
that that great journal OF civilization had bsIore
his advent TO control already done 50 II al ad-
n-irabIe manner
Lord NorthcIine's ideals s-e most excellent ou,
others. both in England and America rad thzn1
long ago and have always had them Perhaps IL
would have been better If he had Inspired some of
his own papers with them earlier a n
New York. NO :. 1903