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Show INFORM A TtON FOR TtiB LA YMAN. u , . Ka't Ie City, Jan. 13, 1903. Editor Salt Laka Telegram: WUI you kindly answer through your valuable paper, the reason why the "press in general" do not give the testimony on the operators' side In detail, as they did the miners' side of the controversy, and so let the people have a fair chance to Judge wherein the fault lies? K looks like the ownera were presenting such a strong case, you were afraid to let .the public know what is said. A SUBSCRIBER. This subscriber does not conceal his identity under a fictitious name, but sends it with his communication. com-munication. In reply it is pertinent to give a little information relative to news dispatches, as that branch of a newspaper business is conducted. The report of the strike commission investigation is made up solely with the idea in view of how many readers all over the United States will-be interested. inter-ested. The Associated Press, which sends this news to several hundred papers including The Salt Lake Telegram must carefully, weigh the relative rel-ative amount of interest in each lot of news. "Khis coal strike investigation has now been before nie public so many weeks that it would injure any newspaper to side-track other news items and give three or four columns on the strike. . Practically all the facts in the controversy have been brought out. The Pennsyvania papers, which are more -immediately concerned, continue to give large space to the reports. SubscriberV, complaint is just the reverse of that of other critics of tiie press, who charge that the newspapers are afraid to say a word against capitalists and corporations. A. newspaper is run like a store. It is made to sell, as a store's goods are. It is the editor's constant aim to print things that will interest the greatest number of his readers. Practically all the editors of the United States have found their readers are losing interest in the details of the coal Investigation. : 1 |