The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-08
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS.

The Associated Press is the great
agency i'll the United States for the
collection of news, and necessarily it's
reports must be impartial, must be fair
ly complete, and must be unbiased, un-
tinged with any political partisanship
or any personal misrepresentation.
Everything must be candid, open,
square, otherwise the usefulness of the
organization would he absolutely moth
ing and the organization would ncces'
sarily 20 to pieces.
The Tribune has taken the Associated
Press news ever since it became daily.
It mas been satisfied with that service,
and has never found it in the least de-
serving of criticism on the points of re-
liability, sufliciency, OF candor And yet
the Smoot paper in this city. merely be-
cause there has been some news from
Oyster Bay not satisfactory to itself,
assails the Associated Press viclously,
while being a customer of that service,
and undertakes to point out mlsrepre-
sentation and falsehood in the reports
of that service from Oyster Bay, And
allowing the dispatches to possess the
least particle of truth. - it casts dou-
bic slur, one on Roosevelt and one on
the Associated Press, whose reports, 1t
intimates. would not without his guilty
connivance possess even the hmnll
"particle of truth that is now carried
In them.
AS a matter of fact. the Associated
Press is right in its reports, and the
Smoot paper is wrong. And when it un-
dcrtakes to say that the only fact IN the
Associated Press service in that mat
ter, aside from Mr.. Roosevelt S Ilecgc
to support Poindexter, is that, there is
Senator TO elect from the State of
Washington next winter, it discredlts
its own columns and holds up to con-
tempt and denunciation the very sery-
ice which itself uses and presents to
its readers as genuine news.
The Tribune as a patron of the Asso-
ciated Press, protests against the de
nunciation of that service and against
the Smoot paper s attempt to convince
:he public that it is unreliable and
untrustworthy. f" We have found it
lust the reverse, it is reliable and trust
worthy And the Smoot paper uncon-
sciously recognizes the same thing when
it admits it to be fact that "Prcsi~
dent Roosevelt has pledged himself to
Poindexter," for it is only by means
of the Associated Press that the Smoot
paper could know that fact.
Any denunciation of the Associated
Press for promulgating false news and
unreliable and untrustworthy informa-
ton, tends to discredit ana bring con-
tempt upon that service. 1t is an extra
ordinary thing for a patron OF
that service to take this stand
with respect to it. The Trib'
une holds this press service to be good
and honest; it uses that news daily in
held up 70 the public of this city with
good faith, and objects TO having 1t
scorn and denunciation, especially by a
paper which presents that service to its
readers as the news of the day. Such
Misrepresentation Of the Associated
Press service is unjust and false. The
Smoot paper knows it to be so, and
the denunciation of the Associated Press
is not only absolutely untrue but is In
decent rs coming under the contempt
which the public feels for a ''bird trat
fouls its own nest