UNFAIR JOURNALISM.

Evening Star, Issue 3993, 11 December 1875, Page 1 (Supplement)

UNFAIR JOURNALISM.

To the Editor. Sir, —There will hardly bo one amongst your readers that will not bo glad to find that at last some protest has been entered against the loose and palpably careless way in which the contents of the morning papers are scrutinised by their editors previous to publication. I am not in a position to say anything on either side of the question referred to by Mr Fish at the Police Court yesterday, but paragraphs are constantly appearing void sometimes of common sense, frequently of information, and, on one occasion which I call to mind, not only utterly void of truth, but containing gratuitous and positive insult to certain persons referred to —a paragraph which I feel certain would not have appeared had it been brought before the editor’s notice. Our morning papers are necessary to ns, but wc are a business and practical community. Let us therefore have our journals turned out in a business-like way, and if the managers do allow their “ devi's ’’ to put in a line or so on their own account, let one particular column be devoted to their use. so that we may bo assisted in discriminating between what is meant for joke and what for earnest. —I am, ko , Earnest. Dunedin, December 10.