SENSATIONAL YANKEE NEWSPAPERS.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1500, 23 January 1885, Page 2

SENSATIONAL YANKEE NEWSPAPERS.

In some remarks on the American Press, the result of observation* dm rmj his recent tour, Mr Matiiew Arnold strongly emphasist«l the fact that the Amerii-au newspaper is nothing if not sensational. The extract «;iven lielow is an apt contii mation of Mr Arnold's comments, and at the same time a good ilhistratjon of the spirit of the American Press. It is taken tVom the introductory address of a i Illinois editor to the puMic. 'l\iis is w. tithe Yankee editor had to say for hi:nself: — "Sensational, distressing details of revolting murdei-s, and s.iook ing snicitles renpectfuliy sol ilm toil. Bible class prPßent.-itiousuni I ministerial donations will be 'dine ' witii pro v t ness and despatch. Accurate rep nts of Sunday school anuiversarieMtruai'iiuteed. Tiie liK-al will cheerfully wiik seventeen inilns after Su-iday School to see and repo.-t a priz- H^iit. Fiiuer.ils and all other melanci-ioiy occasions written up in a manner to ch.illengn admiration. Horse i a cesp- ported intlie highest style of the repoi toiial art. Do m -stic b/oils and conj i^al infelicities soii^hifortwitii untiring avidity. Police Court proceedings and sermons reported in a manner well calculated to astonish the p.isiouer, ma^istiate, and printer. Proinpl-payingsubscrilifrsand f»oo<l advertisers, when stricken wit!) mortal illness, will be cheerfully interviewed, when lying at death's dior, with a view to obtaining obituary itomsaud the >;>:en test care wiilbetakeu in exposing your pi ivate affairs to the critical gaz* 1 ot" an interested pibiio."