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Show THE USE OF NEWSPAPER POWER We occasionally encounter in our rounds of Julesburg and the neighboring community the type of man who believes that a newspaper news-paper is eager to publish derogatory things, or items about people that are sure to embarrass or render those same people unhappy. This is a mistake, and one we regret to call attention to, because it is so unnecessary. There isn't a newspaper man in this country but who could spring a sensation in his community if he wanted to, at any time, by merely printing the things he knows, but does not print. Deciding what not to print is the most troublesome part of editing a newspaper. How many news items are suppressed for innocent relatives and for the public good nobody outside a newspaper office has any idea of. In some instances' the man who flies into a passion because a newspaper prints something about him which he considers uncomplimentary un-complimentary has every reason to feel grateful to the editor for publishing so little of what he knows about the case and the circumstances cir-cumstances surrounding it. And often times the loudest bluffer is the man who is more guilty than the public generally credits him with being. A big noise is often a device to cover cowardice. Newspapers put up with more bluffing than any other agency. Not because they lack the courage to "call the bluff," but because their editors are unwilling to use the power they have in hand to send sorrow into the innocent hearts of the relatives of the man who is doing the bluffing. No, gentle reader, an editor doesn't hunt trouble. On the other hand, he is kept pretty busy turning his back on that which he knows can only stir up trouble, and that cannot do' anybody any good or make anybody happy. Julesburg (Colo.) Grit-Advocate. |