| Show PAPERS AS SEEN BY PRO AND OTHERS was not apologetic but attempting to explain in simplistic terms what confronts newsmen both weekly and daily as they writelate-breaking story reporter on deadline is likecook trying to preparecomplicated dinner that has to be on the table at precisely seven-thirty Twenty-three ingredients are required to make the entree but the cook has only nineteen of them and six of those are wrong Itno good telling the guests to come back tomorrow evening Dinner will be served As they say in the trade Go with what you ve got The surprise is not that the dinner is imperfect but that it gets to the table at all Andrews follows with the admonition Readers would do well to developbit of patience with newspaper coverage It frequently takes more than one pass to getstory nailed down properly To which most practitioners of the art of newsgathering will add Amen Long ago -enough so that the treatise was reprinted in the program of Utah State Press Association1921 convention -Dr Frank Crane wrotemeditative analysis he titled The Journalist His words am the journalist sit as the watcher upon the heights and look with calm eyes over all the activities of men do not judge record do not praise or blame tell am the world become vocal am the utterance of humanity am progress self-conscious am aswhite search light upontower run my gigantic eye to and fro above the city My ray is unescapable When my beam is turned upon the doings of the wicked there ismighty scampering as when an old piece of plank is upturned insummer field the myriad white insects scatter seeking the protective darkness they love Wrongdoers dread me more than they dread courts policemen and prison Fordo not condemn simply tell The ethics of my profession may be told in one word -truth My integrity must be as the virtue of women -above price No man can buy my light No man can buy my silence am not in the thick of affairs sit above them have nothing to do with your stock market your business your politics your religion your organizations and institutions except to Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
