The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-02-15
Getting the News-A Little Cooper;
ton Helps.

II is recognizedly a newspapers
job to get the news For that pur
ipose reporters are employed. Editors
ARE also engaged and it is their bus
mess among other things to direct the
efforts OF the news gathers. On larg
Ter stories the various angles may be
drought out through the ability OF
1.-THE desk men to play up their several
sides. However, it is not a one-sided
proposition, reporters and edt
tors must have their sources
of information. These sources
in relation to the general run
Of news, is the public In
public also includes a great proper
ton O. that publications. readers
These subscribers demand the news
yet there are tines when they do
their best to Cloke the source o,
what they demand logically, they
assail the paper on days when the
local news falls off where perhaps
a few hours before they had refused
information to the reporter when he
called regarding something OF inter
est they knew about. Perhaps II
was Just a personal item that little
bit of neighborhood news, so abso
lutely essential to the success o the
small city publication John Jones
has gone on O trip to New York, per
haps, but Mrs. Jones says ii isn't OF
enough Importance to make a newl
item. But on the other hand, when
the daily sheet comes to hand that
evening she is exceed ng y interested
in the fact that Mrs, Henry Smith
has gone to Boston for a few days
visit or that Mr. and Mrs. James
Johnson are the parents OF a baby
B RI. There are scores Of Mrs. Jones
in every place and the reporter
comes in contact with them every
day. He comes back to the Office
perhaps, with the complaint Gee
they holier because We haven't
enough local news ana yet they lold
out on me all the time
/ The newspaper in this regard is on
" the med UNI OF exchange by which
those in one part OF the city may
know what those in another part are
doing. Everybody is interested IN
the doings Of some one else and
there slou'd be no hesitancy on the
mart OF the readers to aid in this
exchange. There are some persons
and the reporter blesses them every
day o. his life, who pick up and re-
member news of interest to te ] h m
when he makes his regular rounds
Zach dav. IL every one would make
Il a point to do the same what q
wealth OF meaty local news ~ould
,rreet the readers each day And II
would only be a far exchange
In commenting upon this The Enos
burg Standard says the public seems
TO think, sometimes, the reporter OF
editor will be informed OF Happenings
about town by wireless or some ever
more mysterious way The paper goes
on to say 49,,
/ "Then when the paper comes out
and no mention is made of the event
the editor is blamed for not running
good newspaper or not getting all I'M
news Remember there are u goo.
many people IN this town, II the edi
tor knew each of them by name, be
sides their family history ana 'th'
chief events in the lives of every IN
diyidual. he wouldn't he an ed toI
4 He'd be a demtgod, resting his Zee
ON q cloud and slipping amorosia IN
stead of inhabitlng brokeh-uo%l
office chair and wondering Where IN
money for the next white paper Du
Ia coming from. The life OF the aver
tooe newspaper man rs a gay one
lCotbcrinp news Is second nature u
h m ike picking his teeth with IN.
flee nen and cussng the ofiice tower
met tho same. t1ere's limit to M
omuiscence. Last week we though. "
Ia MI ion eight hundred ana lofty
nine thousand three hundred ana SIN
Nv four things Of Importance peSiue
a connie OF hundred thousand slnal
tome unworthy Of mention Ana u
voe a slow week. We're ANXIOUS 10.
$50 news for the papers. ana 1t "un
mt Won out much to telephone "
WHAT'S happening at your house Ihel
IL the item doesn't get in tue pape,
Won have right to come uo"n an. an,
kick the STUFF ing out of the cat Otle'
wise don't blame us no
Tho reporters do Their hest 10 ~
all the news but there are times Whe,
IN is humanely impossible to cover
everything. A little cooperation o.
the part of the readers won d not ON!
tighten his daily grind but contribute
toward newspaper packed with NV
local news items.
st Adams Messenger