Show AN AM tokal taic competition ameal lu in the effort to win the oi of en ener er it is fierce ce editors and pub publishers published lishe rs rack their brains and spend millions in 1 tue attempt to overreach and a of the day is how to make a model newspaper some jour admire toe the so called bullet style in which every variety dt df matter is given though in a greatly condensed form and printed 0 oh n a small sheet the new york sun is a model of this style others like the voluminous newspaper containing many lud hod large paes world ia which the articles aro are written with florid amplitude while every variety ten these two extremes has its admirers the proposition is being advocated now by some great journalists journ allsta that the model has not been created that it should be sufficiently voluminous to contain all current news new 8 of interest transpiring in all th the world that its editorials should be didactic only that it should be neutral and impartial in all things presenting each phase pops possessed essed by every question with equal falness and fairness that it should in short be an unconscious tablet receiving upon its face ace without sensation or emotion of its own a mechanically prepared record of current curren t tho thought kgb t and histo history ry others again hold bold that the model journal should be instruct with life ile and feeling that it should love and hate and den denounce oance teach and exhort investigate vesti gate and eap exp expose e se luquin inquire and expound light and defend it if such a journal as this would direct its course within the lines of truth and justice it would command admiration in a greater degree than would another no matter how bow able hamiag only mechanical attributes the following passage from an article in the christian union still further amplifies an idea of a model newspaper you want first of all alla a paper which will interpret candidly faithful lyt fearlessly the history of our own times which will tell you the history which the present generation is mak lag as the historian should tell you the bist eiry which past generations have made which will the election of harrison in ift 1888 as dispassionately as of the elee election tion of washington in 1789 whick will deal frohly won movement of today as candidly as with the washingtonian onlan movement of halt half a century ago which will cheat with wah no false ano hopes es or delusive rc which wirl aul wul minister mi alster Rister to fruth truth not to prejudice which will be equally discriminating to see the good and the evil in the protestant and the communism the irish and the anglo saxon races the democratic and the republican parties which will see life not through colored glasses political or sectarian but al ways through a translucent atmosphere which will acknowledge allegiance legi legia ance uce to no party only to patriotism to no creed only to truth to no faction only to humanity As a rule a newspaper is made by its patrons rather than by its editors it is the mirror in which is reflected the face of its reader if his face be that of an honest man and a lover of right the paper will be of a like character there is not therefore akely to be the model newspaper until there shall first be formed a model mode 1 I 1 community to demand and maintain it |