Arizona republican., 1914-04-10
The Associated Press

The Associated Press
 Whats wrong with the Associated Press?" is the title of an article by Will Irwin in Harpers Weekly. Simmered down. We inclined the belief that what's wrong with the Associated Press, in the opinion Mr Irwin, is that it declines to en- in the business of undertaking None Of the more less indefinite charges by MT Irwin against the Associated Press sustained at all He fails specifically a single instance where the news of the press has been coored or where any matter that may be properly regarded news has been withheld from the public.
 In theory, according 10 writer the affairs of the Associated Press in every city in the hands of newspaper who have grown middle aged old and prosperous. They have also become possessed of d point view The new man with fresh eyes cannot secure a fOothOd. Vested in terests are therefore, protected and crying evils are unheard. The Associated Press newspapers ac- cording MT. Irwin. have become by their point of view if not by actual ownership organs of the classes Real news is suppressed, and what tends to further upbuilding the classes passes for news
 not the view of the Associated Press says Mir. Irwin, that there is great indus trial and suffering in mining camp. He doubtless had in mind the disturbances of the past several months in Michigan and Colorado. MT Irwin could have followed the Associated Press reports of those disturbances. These reports nave been very complete and believe, wholly un- biased The reports continue yet. long after we be- lieve the general reading public has ceased to be interested in them. It may not be to the credit ol the reading public any time it should cease to be interested wrong-doing suffering, but that it does lose interest in any proracted event in which phases presented from time to time. d fact which the Associated Press and all news gatherers recognize if they desire to hold their grip upon the public.
 MT Irwin's point of view best illustrated in the following: The best that any honest and fair person. radical tory, may expect from journalism in the mass, is that it shall give both sides fair hearing
 What more could it do? What more ought it to be expected do? But infer that in the opinion of Mr. Irwin. it ought to go farther and flay side the other without hearing. That is common idea of the fearless and independent news gatherer. The Associated Press is not in the flaying business and the news columns of news papers should be made instruments for flayns.
 MT Irwin laments that and in editorials lies the real power of the press today That is true for least two reasons. One is that So many editorials do appeal the intelligence of readers formerly. But the principal reason, perhaps, is that readers of the newspapers have a wider grasp of current than their fathers had. In former times, readers depended upon the great editor even upon the editor of the country weekly for the interpretation of the meager news those times. The editorial. in fact, often the only medium for the transmission Of news. The editorials may at times have been incorporate and unjust but they represented the honest convictions of They fearless and were not appeals by demag gogues. They commanded respect
 As the of the Associated Press, we may say that the association is in the control of men who deeply interested in the circulation of their newspapers than in the we'll being of any class. The they demand is that which their readers demand, and the thing the readers de- mand of newspapers is reliability. That is one thing the Associated Press must supply if it is to remain intact Such a gathering association Mir Irwin would form would have short life and a meager patronage.