THE PRESS IN AMERICA.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 611, 3 June 1876, Page 3

THE PRESS IN AMERICA.

An American correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald writes :—“ News of all kinds is very scarce, and the daily papers are scarcely worth perusal. Some very startling changes, by the way, have taken place in the New York (which is. of course, the ‘ metropolitan ’) Press. At one time it seemed impossible that the supremacy of the Herald, in spite of its many faults, could ever be broken. The circulation of that sheet has, however, beeu steadily but slowly sinking for years past, and though it is still nearly as profitable as ever, it has several rivals of almost equal strength. Ten years ago, it used daily to publish a statement which was undeniably correct, showing that its circulation equalled that of all the other papers, with one exception, combined. Now the Hew York Sun has a circulation of 130,000 daily, while the Herald has but 70,000, in place of the 90,000 it once boasted. The New York Times has 50,000 and the Tribune 45,000, aud they are both more economically managed than the Herald, The history of the rise of the Sun is almost a repetition of the history of the Herald forty years ago. Its early career was stained with many scarcely creditable transactions, and it was for a long time one of the paid organs of the Tweed Ring. The ability and activity of its management soon raised it above the necessity of resorting to such disgraceful shifts ; and now that it is prosperous, it lives cleanly, tells the truth, and is an ardent advocate of honesty and reform. It has also adopted the sound policy of publishing nothing but good English, and of telling what it has to tell in the shortest and most pointed manner. There is little doubt but that it will soon become the recognised leader of the independent Press of the country ; indeed, it has already conquered that position,”