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Show EXAGGERATED REPORTS, The Donver New in defending ex-Marshal ex-Marshal SliafTenburg from recent tele-graphic accuriatiuns of swindling the government, warmly protettta ag:iiiiat the prtiia telegraphic machinery ma-chinery being u:i-d to destroy personal rcpuUtioiiH. Iu strictures are worthy of nogco ln-ro, &i they are forcibly ' applicable to the manner in which Utah citizens have- been misrepresented misrepre-sented through the same channels: If ther.t is any dirty linen to bo who"-'), wn wa t it done here at home, a- J i.ot Ufo-e the iyt.-a of forty millions of pu -pic. Tmtc i roni'tbiiig very WMHiK in th.- nmn;ijoiiieU of the asoi t-ated t-ated pr.-s', it' vury picyiiii poli ic.tl nt-a-muUiii, who ban u bona to pi'-k witli a bet cr man than hiin-elf, can clear ot! old tcnri's and new by the ue 0 in wiie'. nd ytt, as tbecitizena of Colorado Colo-rado tnow W their sorrow, this is not the tirattime the telegraph has been worked in the intcreila of carpet-baggers and adventurers to bring disrepute upon the territory. Tl:o mis.-ion of the associated uresB Hj.piirenlly iii not to collect news, but to retail slanJt-ri and scandal through the land-There land-There is much truth in the Btrict- urea, but the pieaa dispatches are ; probably not ao much to blame as the press itself, which, to a large extent, prefers an extiavagantly colored sensational sen-sational report of an occurrence to the bare facte of the case. The News in some of its editorial comments on the Beaver trial, has illustrated this tendency. Proas reporters cannot be expected to bo more conscientious than .their employers, and they usually furnish news spinned to suit the popular taste, or the demand of tho managing editor. |