Newspapers and Racing

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 114, 2 April 1889, Page 3

Newspapers and Racing

We notice in several of our contemporaries, says the Wanganui Herald, remarks which lead us to believe that something will be done soon to place , newspapers on a better footing in res* .pdct to racing clubs than they have Uutberio beensi One paper suggests that cheap advertising should be put * stop to, -.-.and.' mothers have various other suggestions to make, one of the fflost important of which is that each «ii|b«haii contribute so much a year to the Press Association, or its weights ,wiU notjbe: telegraphed through. As to the cheap* advertising that is a •matter quite within the control of the papers themselves, and if is' high time the clubs were stopped from being allowedaw dictate terms. "We can instance a club this coas* which made a lot of monej-2©ut: of its last meeting md B^nt.on adveptwingin the papers in ito own district £1.0. It paid more io get into the; Referee, but why •should the, local papers bfeput to the , expense of -providing sporting news from all parts; of the eok>Hy,*to the great dieeaJJLsf action of a very-numer-*)Ußclaßß^of readers who object to so much space being given to racing ; when they dp not get the same return as 6poitiug.,vpaperß for their news? answer that the ©porting ■ga^6^B3<juite enough for them, asjail tJie.«wners take it. Very ■well^ it th'itis^so, will they be. satisfied if their local 'papers per&r. to allow them to wait a week for the news till they get their Referee?. Only those who are in .newspaper offices have any idea of the absolute selfishness of the sporting public. There is never a set <*f%efghfe, or a report of a race uaeetiug due, but they are flocking round ioMiewa/ and^ not unirequently com plaint because it is "not to hand or is tnaague; Are papers to cater for only oue <dass of the community ? " If so, a*6 they--to do it at their own expense? question- a« tdtbe-Prdss Association recewibg^pajnieiit is a good one,' but it waits working Out. "To pay the Association the money is not enough, 4t ought to be ■distributed pro rota among the papers who subscribe to- the Association according to the class .they: occupy to the Association list. In any lease the present state of things must *jease, and 1 the sooner the Jockey. Clubs are brought face to face with the fact 'that local journals are not going to b» beaten down to stars ration rates, and. at the « ame t™ 6 «pend several hundredsa year to provide sporting news, the better.:— [Our contemporary- should folio w our example Ed. F.S.]