The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-07-30

strict that much matter commonly
printed In America is excluded from
English newspaper columns. Then
also, the British law prevents
press comment upon matters "sub I'm.
dice, that is, the papers may not dis.
cuss case in court until after II has
been iinally determined. They NAV
print concerning such cases only
what is matter Of public court rec
ord, This gives them the right 10
publish the testimony taken In open
court. and exercising this right the
most staid and respectable British
journal sometimes will print things
that could not appear under any cir
cumstances in the yellowest American
newspaper. But at the same time, the
law prevents journalistic interference
with legal procedure, and such a tnlnc
as trial by newspaper in criminal
case. Is Impossible. In this respect
English journalism. OF rather English
law, is immeasurably superior.
In the matter OF advertisements tho
London press Is more liberal than that
OF the majority Of American cities.
Personals" Of doubtful character arc
printed even In the high class jour-
mails. quite rs freely as they used to
be in New York. Even the most re-
spectacle newspapers carry tho ad.
vertising announcements of divorce
/ spies and private detectives, gentle
! man" or lady" Loan sharks and
, usurers also are admitted TO the ad-
! vertiSing columns OF even the best pa
pers.
When it comes 10 politics, British
newspapers are both better and worse
than those in America Because tho
English journals continue to report
public speeches verbatim. there is no
temptation TO garble or color the nj
ternnces of political men. The inter
! view has not made any appreciable
advance In England. and therefore
there Is little. complaint OF incorrect
quotations, So far as the news col
| umnS are concerned. the British press
Is on the whole superior to the Amer
lean in its treatment of political af-
fairs.
But in editorial expression the Brit
ish newspapers are much more parti-
san and much more inclined to be un-
| fair. Nearly every newspaper is an
! out-and-out partisan, and is as zeal
Gus in its support of It's particular
faction as were the Republican and
Democratic newspapers of the United
States forty years ago. The editorial
writer always Is serious. and the
spirit OF levlty has net yet invaded
the editorial sanctum as 1t has done
in the United States. British pert
paragrapher is unthinkablc.
In the matter OF headlines the Brit
ish newspaper differs from the Ameri-
can because OF the difference in the
character OF its readers. An Eng
lishman looks through his paper and
finds the headline Naval and Mill
tary Intelligence" Then he proceeds
to read all about the army and navy
An American insists upon the head
lines giving him n comprehensive re-
Wow OF the news, and if there is any
thing that particular morning in army
and navy circles which interests him
he will read il, not otherwise. Dur
ing political campaign a London
newspaper will carry for months the
single headline The Political Situa
tion" Never more. never less. that
headline indicates to the reader where
he will find tho political! news, but
II does not give him any idea OF
what that news may he. The British
headlines diner from the American
because it is designed for a different
purpose.