Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1906 — About Newspapers. [ARTICLE]

About Newspapers.

Alva (Okla.) Pioneer: The honest fearless, courageous newspaper unavoidably make enemies. Some people have strange conceptions of the newspaper business. A clever exchange hits it off in this wise: “And so a newspaper makes enemies. A single unfortunate line may w ipe out the already faint recollection of a hundred nice things it may have said about a man; a single failure to be guided by the judgment of a politician instead of his own conscience may make that politician the editor’s enemy, regardless of the years dur ing which the paper may have contributed to the advancement of that politician; and even tho a paper may have for tears been a leading factor in booming its town this service may instantly be forgotten if it offends once as to disregarding the ideas of some as to public policy. The wonder, therefore, must not be as to the number ot enemies a newspaper has, but as to its friends being so many. That a newspaper ot character has many friends, surely it is a tribute to the intelligence of its readers, who are broad enough to realize that one may occasionally err and yet lie worthy of confidence. Realizing this, the sensible newspaper man goes ahead.”