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continued for some years after Lord Northcliffe bought The London Times, but relations with him were sharply broken off at the beginning of the World War because of some difference of opinion between him and the management of The New York Times with respect to news exchange arrangements. This has been told so often that very few of those who still repeat the story of a Northcliffe influence on The New York Times have even the poor excuse of ignorance.
Aside from its effect in furnishing nonexplosive
ammunition for credulous Sinn Feiners, the con
nection was on the whole a useful one. It was most
useful at the beginning, when the relative position
of the two papers was not quite what it is today.
In the early years of the twentieth century it gave
The New York Times a connection with a worldwide news service of much intrinsic value and still greater reputation, which proved particularly' valuable in the Russo-Japanese War. Later on it was less important, for The New York Times was becoming able to collect the news of the world on its own initiative; not so much by means of a widely traveling staff of special correspondents as by a few centralized offices which had learned how to get the earliest reports from almost anywhere.
Much of the development of The Times news department has a purely technical or intramural interest, but a good deal of it has such bearing on the general improvement in journalistic methods that it deserves to rank, almost as a public service. This is especially true of the paper's share in the
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