IN PRAISE OF ENGLISH JOURNALS

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 47, 24 February 1906, Page 13

IN PRAISE OF ENGLISH JOURNALS

Mr. Honry Watternon, ono of tho most prominent Journalists In Amorloa, dlscuwea English and Amerkmn journalism in Munsey 1 * Magazine, English typesotting «nd KngHeh proMwork find Kng* Hsh p&permaklng— bettor, ho writes, than Vith u»— give the* London newspapers considerable advantage over (lid American newspaper* In ftppoaranco, whilo ihoir mako-up excels ours in. systcni and order. None of the groat dailies of London u«e display type 00 it is used in America. Another point of diiloreneo much to the credit of London ns agtunal New York is the reduction of Iho day's news into Bomo proportion, and tho abridgement of each detail within its proper optioo, Thoro is less "featuring" | no ncedlesji suporflulty. London compresses Into a paragraph whnt Now York would amplify into a column, Now York covers tho field more fully ; but it does this at a cost of a vast amount of Iho immaterial. Too much elaboration is tho sl^ of New York | Bomctimos too little, though not oftoii) Is that of London When ono has read any one of tho five loading London dallies, li» is tolerably mire 0? being in possnwion it the history of ycMord^'t Tlie dean' mesa of tho London novspapers k delightful, Mnoh of their iMonotf/ ft4*Jl value is fouml in thoir courf< roports, wherein tho «to>ry I is sot down with great particularity, but ' without. BMplttoAffe. 'mere aro no ox1 aggera(ion» In the text, and no headlining to dis^orb tlw t*xt. Th* Dlvorco Court furnisuofl a constant stream of matter which, under American treatment, would bo most salacioiift and unsightly, It is less «o as rendered In Kiiglatid. Tho »nme mny bo enkl of tlio police reports, Indeed, in all points of tlcconry tho London nowsptipprs far Burpass \\f, it tho Amoricflu'i conolusion*