Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-09

ated Press has established regular bureaus of it own in all the great news ] centeTs, and now maintains offices and staffs in London Paris, Berlin, i Rome, St. Petersburgh, Vienna Tokyo, Pekin, Mexico City and Havana, in addition to hundreds of individual correspondents scattered through the world.
 In Foreign Field.
 It is probable that in the foreign news field the extraordinary genius of Melville F. Stone. the general manager of The Associated Press, has been most strikingly exhibited. Just prior to the Russo Japanese war Mir. Stone secured from the czar of Russia the abolition of the censorship. and newspaper men still remember the remarkable frank ness with which the Russian govern ment gave out the news of Russia's reverses in that conflict
 Orders expediting the messages of The Associated Press were issued at his instance by the German, French, Italian and Russian governments and as a, result it has. come to be common for European capitals to get the first news of continental events through Associated Press reports cab1ed back from New York.
 One beneficial result coming from this more direct relationship IS to be found in the minimizing of the i'll effect Of the occasional outbreak of some ut terly inconsequential German, French, English or Japanese yellow spora ideally abusing the United States and it's people.
 Formerly profound significance of a widespread hostility was attached to such outpourinss With the closer Un- 6erstanding that comes from more in innate knowledge, we now understand the relative importance of the news pa pers of other countries as We are able to weigh and grade our own
 The disadvantage of lack Of news touch is strikingly apparent in the re- lations of the United States with the central and South American nations These countries secure their news of the United States by way of Europe and it consists mainly or murders lynchings and enbezzlements, The antipathy to the United States by the people of these countries is undoubted~ ly largely due to,the false perspective given by their news papers. If in truth we were the kind of people they are led to believe we are they would be fully justified in their attitude.
 Bias Not Permitted.
 Bias is absolutely not to ke permit ted in The Associated Press. Prejudice ofmo sort can be allowed Our function is to supply our members with news, not views; with news as it happens not as we may want Il to happen ln- tensely as it's management may sym pattize with any movement. no. propa- ganda in its behalf can be tolerated. Very jealously indeed does the mem bership guard against their agency going outside it's allotted duties and argus-eyed is the censorship of every handler Of our copy.
 In these days when all transactions on a large scale are being subjected to So rigid q scrutiny it is natural that so conspicuous d mark of public at . tention as is sIhe Associated Press should not find itself immune from critical inspection.
 From time to time some voice IS raised denouncing The Associated Press in the same breath both as a monop- oly and because it is not a monopoly, and insisting that it become a monop- oly by admitting to it's membership all desiring its. service; the theory being that in some way the activities of the f association impress it with public use and subject it to the obligation of a common carrier to serve all corners.
 From an ethical standpoint only, then, is there anything improper, un safe or unwise in group of news papers, large or small. associating themselves together to do a thing that each must otherwise. do separately and