Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1888 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The Newspaper Revolution. From th* Rockford\lU.) Rtgist<r.\ -»'r" l Chicago Daily News are the prominent jounialistic successes of the period. The papers that give enough reading matter to fill a good volume in each daily issue are going out of favor with many people wno have some other employment their time than the search through mountains of straw for kernels of news. The sheets that give the news systematically and amply, and without unnecessary padding, are taking the lead in this great cities.” i Forty years ago the chief duty of an editor, in considerably: more than the circulations of all othet view of his limited facilities, was to gather all the Chicago dailies combined. It is hardly necessary news he could and print it. Intelligence was to say that such a circulation could not be attained, transmitted slowly; many occurrences of interest much less maintained, except by a paper of high were never heard of beyond their immediate grade of excellence, as well as one sold at a populocality; ocean niails were long in transit, and the lar price. To win such recognition the cheap overthrow of an European dynasty was not known paper must be as good a newspaper as the best of here Until long after the event. Suddenly there of its higher-priced competitors. And this The came a -change. The railroad and the telegraph Daily News certainly is. It is a member of the superseded old methods, and the newspaper was Associated Press, and is the only paper in Chicago literally flooded with news. The death of a petty which possesses a franchise which-secures to it • ward politician in San Francisco, the result of a both the day and night dispatches of the Presidential election, the. accession of a sovereign, tion. In the general field of news-gathering it rethe outbreak of a war, and notice that a shanty had presents in the highest degree the progressive enterbeen burden in Texas, all were hurried over the wires prise of American journalism: as a«*mr-paper into, the newspaper offices, and there being J (/it challenges comparison with any in the land, no idea of discrimination, all were printed. v its ‘editorial columns The Daily News Thus originated the “blanket sheet.” speaks from the standpoint of the indeThe publisher who could send* out newspaper, and thereby escapes the biggest blanket for a nickel was the temptation of impairing honest and most enterprising; the biggest paper influence by condoning or was the best; it was a period of bidefending the questionable under the But after a time the very excess of of party allegiance. It is not evil brought the remedy, and there be-organ, neither is it a neutral in gan an era of discrimination, during which of principle. It has the cour- ~ arose such journals as the New York Sun '^//ff^age of its convictions.. The organ of and The Chicago Daily News. That the public 1 no party, sect or interest, it voices the united deappreciated the new departure is best evidenced in mand of all those better elements of society in the fact that the reached a circulation of 150,- behalf of purity, honesty and decency in all the 000 a day, and The Daily News 175,000. The relations of life. By just so much as it thus cornwonderful and constantly growingpopularity of the mends itself to the regard of the truly “ best peocondensed, low-priced papers has so far brought the pie ” of the community, does it voluntarily recumbrous and high-priced blanket-sheets to their nounce any community of interest with all others, senses, that they have now somewhat reformed So conspicious a success must have its imiboth as to size and price, but they are still too fat tators, and The Daily News has the endorsement removed from the true ideal of American jour- such imitation always bestows. However as it is the halism to meet the needs of the great majority. only one-cent paper in Chicago or the West which In the west The Chicago Daily News has is amember of the Associated Press—all other Chibeen the first to appreciate and meet the situation, cago Associated Press papers cost 3 cents — all and it now enjoys the results of its twelve years of imitation must continue, so far as news giving value pioneer work in a daily circulation averaging over is concerned, to be hut imitation. The Chicago three times that of any of its contemporaries, and Daily News is “ the original,” “ the best.” Sold by all newsdealers at one cent per copy, six cents per week. Mailed, postage paid, for $3.00 per year, or 25 cents per month. Every farmer can now have his daily paper at little more thah the cost of the old time weekly. Address ‘ VICTOR F. LAWSON, Publisher The Daily News, Chicago

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