The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-26
ASSOCIATED PRESS AND NEWSPAPER
 STANDARDS.

The recent annual meeting of the Associated Press and the retirement of Melville E. Stone from the management of the organization have caused renewal of discussion of this great newsgathering organization, its methods and ethics and with the discussion of course. has intensified consideration of the standards modern journalism
 One of the things this discussion has brought out very clearly it's that the day of the organ" the manufacturer of political other propaganda as a newspaper passed into limbo long time ago; and the passing furthered in large measure by the con- ceps and practices of the Associated Press
 The Associated Press has survived and become great because It has not attempted to manufacture news It has confined it's efforts to reporting the news as 1t develops The New York Tribune, itself only in the last few years, because of change of policy recovering from the stagnaton that followed it for years because it was first of all political organ and then newspaper struck the keynote when it said of Melville E. Stone:
 He was content to be reporter: there
 was every temptation in his great power his
 control of the largest and efficient
 news agency ever known, editorialize to
 propagandize to color facts in accordance
 with personal bias. Charges of bias have
 from time to time been brought against the
 Associated Press, but they have always
 collapsed
 The Associated Press under MT
 stone has long and consistent record Of
 painstakingly fair effort to assemble and
 publish the truth
 The policy of the Associated Press in refusing to manufacture news to fall those who try to do so in insisting upon knowing the truth before it speaks sometimes causes it appear to be scooped but Tn the end, when the real story develops it usually is first to tell it. and it tells it correctly
 The New York World, commenting upon the same subject says of MT Stone that he endeavored to ad- minister the affairs of the Associated Press as a public trust And this today, is the attitude of most the American newspapers which have gained a hold on the people They as public trusts They do not manufacture support political CT other interests or to sway public sentiment They ae as 1t Is the which they believe concerns the public. cooperating with constituted authority where the public welfare seems 10 demand it. No real news paper will deliberately lie to put any one in a hole or to bring discredit any administration or any person. and no newspaper which does that can long continue to thrive.
 paper may apparently prosper for a time h, appealing to prejudices, hates envies and passions by using misrepresena ation serve it's ends but ii cannot do 1t for long. The undertaking days const tuted very brief period in the history of the country in comparison to the long life and tremendous sue cess of the plain simple. truth telling Associated Press and sensational journals while sometimes lead ing in times when passions high soon wither and decay
 The great papers in the Nation those with long and credtable histories, have very independent of political parties and have stuck close to truth telling at the of seeming now andsagaa to be slow.
 The Associated Press has contributed immensely to education of the people the development of sentiment which clearly discriminates between the false and the true.