Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1911-10-20
THE PASSING OF THE YELLOW
10 URNAIAy

2 An editorial, even though credlted
to the paper from which It was taken,
is concededsin newspaper circles to re.
fleet the ideas Of the editor OF the pa.
per in which it is finally published.
Last evening the Journal republished
an excellent editorial from the Duluth
Herald on Newspapers and their duty,
but IL the idea of Editor Bloom 10 re.
Elected in the Duluth article he has
.woefully failed to live up to his ideas.
y Tie irresponsible yellow"
newspaper chad great vogue for a Z
time, and did its share toward
lowering the "fourth estate" in
discriminating minds. But it is
going, too, and for the same reason. 4
You can fool some of the people
all Of the time and all Of the peo.
pie some of. the time; but you
can Z fool. all of tho people all Of
the time. That is why these three
types Of newspapers, which never
were truly representative, are pass
ing.
II newspaper is "yellow and
cares less for the truth than it
does for creating sensation and
selling papers, everybody will
know it within n short time, and
SO everybody will cease to respect
it. And when newspaper is no
longer respected, it might as we'll
quit.
If this is true the Journal is reach.
ing the quitting stage for surely there
is not a newspaper in the entire state
that has lost respect, confidence and
subscribers as rapidly rs has the Jour
nal. Their unreliable, perverted and
malicious reports Of police court hap
penings, state affairs and the Cowan
trial and the drug store cases stamp
them as yellow" in the extreme.
Continuing the Duluth Herald says:
All newspapers make mistakes.
Anybody who has witnessed the
rush and hurry of getting all the
history Of the world for twenty.
four hours into an evening news
paper, for instance, in seven or
eight hours,would wonder that
there were not ten times as many
mistakes as there are. Newspapers
are not infalliblc, and it wouldn't
be any use to profess to be, none
do.
,Out UuOt AC6A ACWSRNpCA VI W.
day, the newspaper with which
it is impossible for any kind to
compete, serves nobody but its
readers. It owes them the duty of
giving them the all of the news
while it is news as promptly as it
can, and Of rendering it as accu.
rately as it is possible to do. Its
news columns, it's advertising col
umns and its editorial columns,
are three. seperate. departments
that should never overlap What
ever its editorial views it must
give the news, even if the news
proves the, editorial vitws to be
wrong.
Does the Journal comply with the re.
quirements of "real" newspaper
Hardly a night passes but what editor.
ial comments are scattered literally
throughout the news columns. Only
this week Editor Bloom INDUCED in q
roast ON one Of the local stores and the
reason was discovered ON the opposite
page in the form of small advertise
ment from competitor. It is q known
fact that no. possible opportunity il
overlooked to knock through the new.
columns those who do not patronize
the Journals 4 advertising columns
While there can be no dispute over the
statement that il is seldom in local re
ports that the news is not coolred t
suit the editorial policy of the paper
If the Herald PARTICLE is true, and W.
believe. from our experience in the
| newspaper game, that it is, the Journa
belongs to the class Of partisan, con
trolled, unreliable and political Sheet
that are rapidly getting into 'disreput,
and dying from lack of support.