MAKING UP OF A NEWSPAPER.

Dunstan Times, Issue 987, 18 March 1881, Page 3

MAKING UP OF A NEWSPAPER.

Charles T. Hpngdon has closed the “ Reminiscences of a Journalist,” in the New York Tribune. The follow, ing paragraph, from his last capter, may he commended to the notice of newspaper readers everywhere: Of the toi> which a newspaper demands, of'he unceasing attention which it exacts, of the judicious care which it requires, the great public of readers take no account. Tho-e who come to the breakfast table more or less bilious expect-to find in their morning sheet something like perfection, and 1 do not mean to aav that they are not right in expecting it But wh u they glance hastily over the columns, and then judiciously decl ire there is nothing in them, they may often forget there is everything in them of importance which has happened during the last 24 hours; that 50, 75, IdO. mav--1)6 lot) men toiled all night while these snap critics were sleeping their he da, as Carlyle says, full of ‘‘the fnolishest dream'sworked to make up this irreat Compendium, this map}--the c pifs*»hfc 6t sf'cfeljr, “ it's -11 actuations and its vast concerns!" ■ It ,imghf,lead the dissatisfied purchaser to revise his judgement, if, he could stand between one and, two o’clock in the morning in the composing rooni of a great, journal,, and witness the intense excitement, all kept well under in well-regulated offices, which char* aeterisea the -< making-up " of the sheet lie sometimes dismisses so .contemptuously. The night- editor, if then in a sta,te.to_jjpeak to auylib’dy' rationally, might tell him the | great point was jio&sia jiytch :w’iac should go in as what should be left out. For there never was, a morning paper yet which wiy.big enough for all the matter prepared for itand. .there never caii Be. The larger'"the sheet the more news will come from it—for every additional 6duuia thn ecolumus of intelligence! or of- matter of some sort, will demand admission. Again, the rule is that there shall be no misStakes., It ;*s, inexorable, yet thrice hgppy is the journal in which it is neverviolftted. Ther- are more mistakes than the sagacious public ever fiuda.ijiut. Nowhere is a newspaper 'wcriUciaed as iu its own office.