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1851-1921 By Elmer Davis Originally published 1921 |
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development of the art of news-getting in future decades would be chiefly in this same direction. But the editors of The Times suspected even then that this was not wholly true, for in their editorial remarks on the future of the paper they gave their principal attention to the "alliance for mutual benefit" which had just been concluded with The London Times - an arrangement of which more will presently be said by which The New York Times obtained all rights to the world news service of its English contemporary. Said a Times editorial article on the jubilee day:
And indeed the remarkable growth of The Times in the following years was largely due to its diligence in obtaining, and sound judgment in handling, the big news, much of it foreign news. This had been notably true even before the outbreak of the war of 1914-1918 gave to American journalism a test from which The Times emerged perhaps more brilliantly than any of its competitors. Even so early as 1901 it was apparent that the American people were in the world, whether they liked it or not;
The occasional triumph known in the lingo of journalism as a "beat" may shed a fleet
ing lustre on the name of a newspaper. Of those The Times has had its share in
the half century of its life. But the daily habit of gathering into its columns from
the four corners of the earth all the news which vigilance and faithful effort can
obtain and in which intelligent minds are likely to be interested gives enduring character and reputation and determines the public judgment.
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