The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-31
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Accuracy

Accuracy
a. The thirst for knowledge absolute, accurate
y knowledge of what is happening and what mel
Z IRE doing is as old as humanity. Means for salts
lying that desire were inadequate for centuries
land the often repeated cry, II want to know"
found no satisfactory response.
u Today that condition has virtually disappear
led and almost instant knowledge of great occur
rences throughout the civilized world is at hand
#daily, under the caption "By The Associated
Press"
Readers of The Palladium perusing three
Z line bulletin or column article with the words
by The Associated Press, above it have certain
$assurance that the statements there made are
Rcorrect
II There are good reasons for this assurance
One of the foundation stones of The Associated
Press is accuracy. Even in the keen competition
to be the first to announce an important event
this organization never hesitates to sacrifice
I speed to accuracy. Nothing is guessed at Nc
matter how probable rumor may appear it is
clossed as rumor until its accuracy is definitely
established. When the fact is made certain it is
%nounced without hesitation no matter how
the ,ge or improbable it appears.
thea case in point was the bombardment of Paris
German long distance guns. The Associated
fess men in the French capital obtained definite
knowledge that shells and not aerial bombs were
doing the deadly work. Military authorities
scoffed at the idea of such tremendous range, but
The Associated Press flashed across the sea the
positive statement that long distance Smelling of
! Paris had begun and the news was read by mil
lions in America before more than few hundred
Parisians were aware of the nature of the new
terror.
Rumors of approaching peace, widely her
aided that they threw the nation into delirium
of joyful celebration, which for time disrupted
business, were classed at their proper value by
Ehe Associated Press, which promptly and au-
/bDritatively notified the waiting world when the
armistice was signed and the hour for the ces-
sation of the world war was determined.
The peculiar formation of The Associated
press, a cooperative organization of newspapers
allied for efficiency in news gathering and dis
tributing with no financial profit in view, itself
makes for accuracy. Over eleven hundred pairs
IF editorial eyes each day inspect the items car
led and do it before they are in type. A thous-
nd different interests observe each statement
mt forth. Each sentence, each word, is under a
3ticism all the more intense since it comes not
pm one point alone but from every angle.
~ The critics are of different shades of political
belief of economic opinion and of religious
Thought, and no higher nor more convincing proof
aLf the solid foundation of accuracy which the
Wv4nords, 'By The Associated Press" symbolic
o'an be sought than the fact that even through
: heated political campaign reported day by day,
Ne statements of The Associated Press go un-
challenged.
IN 81 won't believe it until The Associated Press
Days So" has become more than saying; it is
maxim among well informed readers.