The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-01-09
Cussing the Newspaper.

1t is quit a popular diversion in
some quarters to cuss the newspaper.
One day last week the News & OBJ
server had an interesting little story
about an error that a reporter had
the misfortune to make. The report
er, always Eeliable, but, like all other
human beings, liable. TO error, slipped
one time ana credited the lRaleigh
Masopspwith some little stunt that
the Raleigh ODD Fellows had pulled
off.
What followed will remain green in
that reporters memory for years.
Representatives of the odd Fellows
got together and fashioned a formal
protest and sent it in and they were
very sarcastic about it.
The reporter was sorry and he
apologized to the offended Odd Eel
lows, but he submitted a few remarks
that went strait to the point, about
this business of cuSSing out the
newpapermen when he happens to
make a little error.
or course his protest will do no
good. Folks will go on cussing news
paper men as leng as newspaper men
are human and continue to make oc-
casional errors. That's something
we all have to get use to. Very few
has not temptation to go wrong on
curracy, dependability. and patience
that go to make the newspaper of to-
day the wonderful institution that it
is and the News & Observer man may
as well accept matters as he finds
them.
The truth OF the matter is that the
most reliable persons on the face of
hn rNh hn Nnrhn l,n
newspapers Of the nation. The news
paper that fails to tell the truth all
the time is headed for the junk-heap
in a hurry and telling the truth is the
only policy that pays in the news
paper business. With his natural in
clination toward truth-telling, back
ed by the facts that truth pays and
errors are fatal, the newspaper man
has no tefptation to go wrong on
this score.
If the average man told the truth
half as regularly and consistently as
the newspaperman does liars would
be mighty scarce in this land OF cours.
Sometimes the yawning of those
who think ii smart to try to disCredit
the newspaper, gets on the nerves of
the californian and he is forced to
rise and submit few remarks. For
instance, take the following para
grapr for Emporia, Kans Ga
Zette:
Every paper has corked up in it
row over a typhographilcal error and
cr airs. Some day, when the time
comes, we propose to get out a spec
cial edition for once in a long and
useful career tell the truth about
grating church workers who think
that the advertising OF their entet-
tainment TO steal and cheat and graft
for the Lord is a pious act; in that
edition we propose to tell how many
dollars the various busted fair asso-
Citations owe us for advertising which
never was paid for; how many men
the Gazette has supported for Office
who went around declaring that the
Gazette did them more harm than
good; how many times we have got
behind the town booming PROPOSE
tions, wasted our time and space
and good black ink and white paper
and in the end had a lot OF ivory
headed chumps hold a lodge of sor-
newspaper pull ow just such a stunt
moan about the fact that the Ga
zette never does get anything right.
or course we have nothing like
that corked up in us. We have reach
ed point where we refuse to get
excited over annoying little things
like these enumerated and accept
them as a matter OF course, an un-
avoidable part of the days business,
but we would really like to see some
newspaper pull OFF just such a sunt
as the Gazette threatens to pull off.