NEWSPAPER READERS.

New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, Volume I, Issue 18, 20 October 1841, Page 3

NEWSPAPER READERS.

" How endless is the variety of newspaper readers, and how hard it is to satisfy their wants ! Mr. A believes lie shall discontinue his paper because it contains no political news. Mr. B is decidedly of opinion that the same sheet dabbles too freely in the political movements of the day. C don't take it, because its all on one side ; and D, whose it generally expresses, does not like it because it is not severe enough upon the opposition. E thinks it does not pay due attention to fashionable literature;. and F; cannot bear the flimsy writers. G will not suffer a paper to lie on his table which ventures to express an opinion against slavery ; and H never patronizes one that lacks moral courage to expose the evils of the day. I declares he does not want a paper filled with the hodge-podge doings and. undoings of the Congress and the Legislature: and J considers that paper the best which gives the greatest quantity of such proceedings. K patronizes the papers for the light and lively reading/which they contain ; and L wonders that the press does not publish Dawey's sermons, and other matter." M will not even read a will not expose the great evils of sectarianism'*, jand N is decidedly of opinion that the pulpit, and not the press should meddle with religious dogmas. O likes to read police reports; and P, whose appetite is seldom morbid, would not have a paper in which these silly reports are printed in his house. Q hkes anecdotes, and R wont take a paper that publishes them. R says that murders and dreadful accidents ought to be put in papers; and S complains that his miserable paper gave no account of that highway robbery last week. V stops his paper because it contains nothing but advertisements, and all that W wants of it is to see what there is for sale. X will not take this paper unless it is left at his door before sunrise, and Y declare^ he will not pay for it if left so early, that it is stolen from his domicile before he is up. And last of all comes the complaints of some of the ladies, who declare the paper very uninteresting, because it does not every day contain a list of marriages, just as if it were possible for the printer to marry people without a commission, aud whether the parlies will or no. But the variety of newspaper readers is too great for the present review —and we "give'em up," with a determination to pursue the •' even tenor of our way," in offering to the public such readings as, in our humble opinion, will prove most useful and interesting to them, as eirly in the morning as practicable.— American Paper.