The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1889. TELEGRAPHIC RUBBISH.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2278, 12 November 1889, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1889. TELEGRAPHIC RUBBISH.

It is unquestionable that a large amount of the news which is Bent to the press by wire and for which they have the privilege — it cannot be said the pleasure — of paying, is of the trashiest sort, very much too much prominence being given to " sporting " items. One would think that the doings of pugilists, and rowers, peds and bicyclists, horses and dogs, were of the bigtießt importance to all classes of mankind — certainly they occupy tb.3.place of honor m colonial newspapers, — and we are decidedly of opinion that there is a great deal too much ot this sort of thing. No doubt there is a section of the community which delights m this sort of pabulum, but it is only a section, and a small one too after all, and just a little more consideration for the tastes of the majority might well be cultivated by the purveyors oi telegrams and cablegrams. We, therefore, entirely sympathise with the protest of a Hawkes Bay contemporary (the "Telegraph") which writes as follows upon this subject : " What with the transactions of bookmakers and hangers-o^ of stables and gambling hells m Australia, and what with the doings of professional ruffians m England, all so lavishly telegraphed to us, it might be thought that the press of New Zealand catered almost solely for black-legs and blackguards. It naay be asked of us : ' Why do you publish the disgusting and miserable rubbish ?' Our reply is : 'We get very little else, and if we put [the stuff m the waste-paper basket, where it ought to go, we should have scarcely anything to show for the hundreds of pounds we have paid to the Press Association, and for wire charges.' The sooner there is a radical change the better, and that change will have to be brought about by the respectable portion of the press m this colony."