The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-05-08
SHOULD WORK MORE AS A UNIT

HE rehabilitation Of the Godhed Press club will hav its beneficial ef
feet upon the tone Of the press of the Godheld section. bringing HI vari
more along the same lines % thu same great end Not that they have not
been doing good work, cr that there las been ny friction. for the Godhed
err Nevada.
The work of organisation, however, should go further, an all the news
papermen of the state cor together in a strong state organization, which
should hold smtannual meetings. at least where the work should 70 discussed
and gone over, and plans made for the entire press Of the state to work in
unison. and to place new and editorial mattro n a plane of proved before
printed which would lend the columns of the Nevada papers more weight
and dignity with outside readers.
Time has BEEN and is now t. a small extent when sensational reports $ to
new strikes production Of various properties, ETC., which the publishers them
selves had every reason % believe were lot true were hung broadcast The
outside public came to believe these reports at hrs invested money o the
strength Of them, lost the money and now Is prone to believe that all reports
as to mine production which are published in the press Of the state art hot
The investing public takes the mining prospectus as n interesting end
wen arranged and printed bit OF fiction; it regards the promoter OF mining
properties a trained liar. who is interesting breezya and liberal but that the
bait with which he is fishing is merely a gntteing artifciahty, fashioned to
resemble the real thing. but with crue lbarbs beneath; 1t believes "a tn
Nevada newspaper is either deluded by the smooth talk # the promoter o. is
deliberately, for a price, aiding him in hoodwinkng m investor into Throw
ing good money after bad.
This condition Of affairs is to a degree attributable to the press OF Ne
vada. Many Of the paprs-the great majority Of them-don lot print mining
news unless they believe in its absolute truth; others of them have to be
erty for q onsideradon n natter % iarge or anurns- e. 'hele are an
ave beer papers in h state which debauched their columns Tor a price; others
verifcation. And the papers which re utterly reliable and veracious have to
suffer for the misdeeds Of their weaker contemporaries
A strong State Press Association. in which every newspaper in the state
Joined; which would bring o every paper in tn state a realization Of TN
power a united press holds and the good it could do when working to a common
represented, giving honest information as o all properties whether god or
bad, legitimate or inegitimate, would be n of the greatest powers in tn de-
vaopment OF Nevada which the state has v known.
The newspaper las two great duties: First it is : give the public in
formation. information consists of but ne thing-the truth Second, It should
new matter lauding a proposition which it knows 70 be fraudulent shan not
print advertisement which it knows are intended TO deceive the public; and
defraud the investing public print true statements of the condition OF and
operations O the properties by means # Oh through which these companies
or men are attempting to fleece the investor.
It is only by these means that the papers OF the state a a whole canh hope o
win the confidence of the public. 1t is only by means 4 a strong and bust
nesshke organization Of the newspaper men Of tn state that 2 matterc can
be worked ut in its completeness. Let US IA a Give State Press Ass0cia-
ton.