ENGLISH JOURNALISM

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8743, 17 December 1913, Page 5

ENGLISH JOURNALISM

AMERICAN AMBASSADOR'S ; CRITICISMS. .:'".' .'.'.',.;' ,i?

LONDON, December 16

Dr. Page, the American Ambassador, in a brilliant and welt-r,easoned, speech at the Institute of Journalists' dinner, urged British and American journalists to visit each other's countries every two years to obtain an idea of other people's ways of doing things. A British journalist, he said, should write a leader on something American and take it across the Atlantic. He would then see what a fool he-had made of himself. He proposed that when England and America celebrated the 'hundred years of peace, a number of responsible and teachable journalists should go to the United States, stay some time, gain an inside knowledge of American newspapers, and tell them why they were mis-made, thus frankly helping them to understand the spirit of civilisation of England. He hoped that a similar thing would be brought about from America.