| Show ac interviews THE inaccuracy of reported interviews views with prominent persons is be caming generally recognized it la is well known that in some cases the ambitious or impecunious reporter will manufacture out of the fabrio fabric of his own vivid imagination long columns ot of countr conversation B tion and yards of bogus opi opinions niona which he will credit to some bome well knowd known public man who perhaps behas he has hns newer never seen in hial his hig lre ire in ID other cases a few moments colloquy will be dressed up into an extended interview ll 11 and expressions put puo into an officials mouth on un IM portana questions that are entirely foreign to his views and even when the reporter aims at being correct he ha frequently misses hh his mark and treats areata the public to a distorted account of what was said to him hirm misleading the reader and exasperating aspe rating the victim of ochla his hib errors 1 new york sun vio pio proposes poses as a remely for these evils that no in ter fernety tie efe nety ba published until the tho effin inter torvik bervik vied vica via ed has bas had an opportunity of the proof of the report of hia his rem remark arlis s this would bo be ari nui excellent thing wherever practicable but in many instances it would be ibie ible persons persona traveling through the country could not wait until their utterances utterance a were put into type if they could few would be abie able to return proof in proper time for publication and while some bome papers capere might adopt the plan others would pay no attention to it were really desirous of giving their read ets erb the tho truth and preferred that to 11 sensation if they would decline the services of reporters who pander to public demands for or fB spicy play arti cles in instead stead of striving after accuracy I 1 if they would make it a point to be ba truthful and correct in preference to baing what is falsely called enterprising there would be but little difficulty and andrare rate nato cause cadee for complaint of course the remarks of many individuals appear very different in cold type to what they sounded bounded in warm speech and disappointment will be by would be great peri who are not accustomed to dictate for publication but the pye present abuses of 0 the 19 interview business would bo be corrected and there would not bo so many angry public men iuen who have been dented nor so many newspaper readers who hava have been shamefully deceived |
