| Show PRESCRIBE FOR PRESS Noted Men Tell How to Run Hun Newspapers BRYAN GIVES HIS VIEWS MINISTER WU THINKS REQUISITE C New York Feb 15 following are excerpts read at the dinner ot cit the Correspondents club from gow responses received from persons in answer to the question q How can the influence of the prose pr be Increased 7 Secretary of State John HaI do donot not consider myself competent to give advice on this subject Reid By the most scrupulous bus lous effort In giving the to tell the exact truth without exaggeration and without guess work and by dis discussion based upon study and conducted with the courtesy that commands a respectful hearing bearing Horace White By an honest to deserve It Joseph Jefferson The best means of increasing the influence of journalism or indeed any profession is by bring ing to bear on it industry ability and integrity It would be a grand depart departure ure if 1 the best beet newspapers were to in inaugurate Inaugurate a system whereby only known facts would be published and would search out and expose every fraudulent Journal under such condi condl tion a confidence would be aroused In the public mind that perhaps does not exist now Susan B Anthony By advocating the ballot to all women as well as to all allmen allmen men Kohlsaat Favors Vivacity H H Kohlsaat editor Chicago There is a widely demand that the influence of the press shall make more for those things that are of good report and exalting to the people than it does It can be less cynical and more sincere It can be bemore bemore more optimistic in its views of f life It Itcan Itcan can be more considerate toward the j unfortunate and more generous in the I treatment of those with whom it may not be in accord The truth I should be told with all the vivacity of fiction or the press will ivill suffer Stupid veracity is the rock upon which more than one truly good newspaper has foundered Veracity with vivacity is ismy ismy my prescription for what I think your club is seeking after Bryan for Personal Journalism W J Bryan BryanA A newspaper will ex cx exert ert a greater influence other things be lag ing equal If it is known to represent on public questions the deliberate con convictions convictions of some person a person of flesh and blood not a corporation The influence of a newspaper other things being equal will be greater if it is isI I known who owns the paper arid and con controls controls its policy and that that person has no interest adverse to the interests of the readers The influence of the press wilt will be in ed d by greater unity in the support of any good cause causO and andin andin in the condemnation of any bad tice Jeanette L Gilder I should say by less sensationalism and more truth Arthur P F Hadley president of Yale university Is it not nt the question rath rather er how that influence can be so di directed directed that it shall work more toward permanent ends and less toward tem temporary I ones I General A Alger Let the press be he over ovet zealous in ascertaining whether its publications are founded upon facts or not Thomas A By publishing a a fact now and then Nikola Tesla Th influence of the tho press might be greatly increased by adopting a better System of informing the world of technical and scientific advances or generally speaking of such news as concerns professional men Abbott Rev Lyman Abbott The proprietor must put influence above Commercial I success To secure this influence the editor must hav definite anti and ln in convictions on the subjects on ott which he wishes to exert influence He I must be fair to these who do not share these convictions He must his readers that lie is seeking the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth not a personal or sectarian advantage He must deal with topics which are both of reel interest and of toni real Importance to the public Cardinal Gibbons The influence of the press would be much increased by bya a strict adherence to facts ij record recording recording ing events and by a scrupulous accuracy accuracy racy in reporting the expressions of public men meni I i Andrew Carnegie The paper which obtains a reputation for publishing aoi news and only that which is fit to print and which editorially writes temperately although always decidedly will steadily increase its in nuance 1 Wu Wa Ting Fang Chinese minister I I will vill simply say that the influence of o othe the press can be Increased by strict adherence to facts Bishop Henry C Potter By the edit edu education cation and elevation of its readers A decent t intelligent thoughtful constituency constituency ency will compel a decent press B B Odell Odeli jr governor of New NewYork ew York Accuracy and reliability are the prime requisites |
