Show THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PR SS The pr press ss of America ha has bec become be rne o of late a favorite theme with the English rs and quite a a. controversy is ragIng ragIng rag- rag Ing Irig among the British Journalists Fe- Fe re regarding re- re garding it Mr Mr W. W A. A M. M Goode in the the February Empire Review thus deals with one oue ope of the tue greatest f factors ct rs In in American n Journalism 1 the Associated d Press He lIe says i iBy I By ny chance and the prevailing Amer Amer- iner- iner I ican lean ap aptitude ude for consolidation n of inter interests ests eats the or otherwise of the American American press press ress In Its reporting o of events in England Is s practically narrowed narrowed narrowed nar nar- rowed down downto to the I conduct of one concern concern concern con con- cern known as the Associated Press It consists consists consists' of bf a operative co-operative combination combination combination tion of almost almo t all the great g great and and at-and and small small- papers of America and fo for the pur purpose ose of collecting disseminating and nd news hews news both at home and abroad It Is conti con- con ti oiled absolutely by the American papers papers papers pa pa- pers themselves It i is not nt a mak profit ing concern c has no politics no creed I and in its work Is the Incarnation of an anonymity The Associated Press is al allied allied allied al- al lied with Reuter and md with all the other great European news news agencies In addition addition ad ad- to th these se reaching far-reaching connections the world is Is dotted dotte with its Us correspondents correspond correspond- v who ho are are employed solely for American AmerIcan Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean papers and whose reports are al ai almost almost al- al most instantly distributed d throughout the United States and Canada over nearly miles mile of their own telegraph telegraph telegraph tel tel- wires to some papers The i yearly expenditure of this concern or rather ratier of th th the American papers constituting constituting constituting it probably surpasses the combined corn com expenditure of all ali the other news agencies of the world It Is truly the eyes and ears ears ears' of ica Amet-ica both from a ahome ahome ahome home and foreign standpoint standpoint So far as England is concerned the I bulk buIlt of the American papers rely lely al almost almost al al- most solely upon po the Associated Ass Press Press' to keep their readers Informed of events there though a few leading New York Chicago P Philadelphia and Boston papers papers pa pa- pers maintain mal tain special correspondents in London w who ho supplement the Associated Press news service ser according to the desire desire desire de de- de- de sire of th the paper that employs them There arc c however probably only twenty su such h correspondents In London and only half a dozen doren of these use the cable to any extent or with any allY effect upon public publio opinion In addition on there are two small American news agencies es operated as private cor concerns erns whose Influence for good 01 or evil is not equal to that of several say sev eral of the s special correspondents who have established by of explanatory explanatory ex ex- and una critical comment comment rather than by reporting Deporting reputations in America Amer Amer- ica len where their careful and unprejudiced unprejudiced unprejudiced diced dispatches do much to foster the good feeling bet between the two countries Cincinnati Times |