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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
NEWSPAPERS IN THE FAR EAST.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, ~- 1931.
And there is every reason
newspapers
Managing Editor of the South The other items which harass thelations in variona
a's
for!
in the
aro, every whit as worryinged and that it may be many
newspaper.
and
very
THURSDAY,
12th NOVEMBER
sailing for
MANILA
one of the
BIG 4
"EMPRESS OF ASIA"
Some Business Facts. The cost of printing machinery hoping that, this will not happon. -the first essential of n news- Still in the mood of prophet, I paporis In Itealf a terrifying have the firmest bollot that now FORECASTS ON JOURNALISM. factor for the publisher to-face methods of ne venaca, atop the onterprisa Then newsprint la another heavy an
avy and policy will of Revolutionary changes in jour item on the printing bill, and this circulations palism in the Far East were for has lately been affected by the Orient to an extent that may
may seem cast by Mr. Raymond O'Shea,
exchange to an alarming degree.
at the moment to be incredible. Wa remember that the white a half- China Sunday Star, in
business poor
parts manager every
of the Far East hour's radio talk last night.
are very insignificant Mr. O'Shen said in part:
ont, ink, bad debts, and There have been books written the hundred one anxieties years before they assume
on the other on the Press and its growth and
which come the way of every large proportions;
oach development-books of great girth and bistorical data-going back all this is not nearly so stupendous receiving first-class English educa
year thouaanda And the gain from hand,
Indians, Malaya and Chinese are across the centuries to Milton'
In com. noble defonce of the liberty of the as one might imagine.
parison with the service which tions and it is for thom that the the op. Press-Areopagitica—and
sition
pamphlets of the Royallet newspapers render to the public, newspapers of the near future
arc Vory slight will have to cator. to the vigorous, vindictive their profits
Livinderd.
Big Trust in Store. and vitriolic days of Dr. Johnson,
Imagine, if you can, what the In this respect I believe that the when the scum of all that deplorable in the intellectual life world would be like with no nows Press of to-morrow will have one of the nation found its way onto napors to inform you how the rest of the greatest trusts and the news-sheets. Since then the of the world was thinking, acting. pendulum has swing to the ex-buying and playing. It would be ponsibilities that ever faced
backwards to the conditons newspaper the trust of moulding and the Press has passed a step treme,
the friendship and and Becuring ess, of the middle ages. Men would be public opinion in the Far East from disreputableness to dullness, of the
fellows and
co-operation of Asiatic peoples on Empt. of Asia and from dullness to the bright, ignorant of their if occasionally sensational modern knowledge would be in the hands questions affecting the British Empr. of Canada
who could afford to Empire. Unlimited of the few who
will powers travel. The newspaper In the Far East the Press has than an institution. It is a part morrow, and it will be able
apart rest with the foreign Press of to- Empr. of Busala
Jan. 2 Jan. to Empr of Japon had a development entirely its own of the age--an indissoluble part achieve, if guided by personality, Empr. of Asia and
han been,
until recent times, of our daily lives, putting us in vision and courage, that which the Empr. of Canada little influenced by the big London touch with reality and affairs and most Influential politicians at pr. of Ruzzia dailien, Akta in spirit to the old-helping us to keep our places in Westminster could not do
with mpr. of Japan established provincial newspapers the drama of business and plea- thoir conferences and communi-pr. of Ale
Empr. of Canada in Indin. Britain, the Prean
Empr. of Bassin to-day,pr. of Japan Yet, although it is true that the In the past, and evan China and Malaya, has attempted, to enter for na possible for the
com- newspaper is necessary, it is alan policy has mattered very little to Capt. of Ada needs of tho
Empr. of Canada it serves, the Civil Ser. true that it has far to go before the Colonial or foreign newspaper
Empr. of Bussi it reaches the standard that the serving A small European or the Army and the Navy, and late Lord Nartheliffe and in mind, American
It community. of late
punny newspaper.
In
WAO
ques.
теб-
A
hax
the patriotic
인 nghave set in the Far East. It spirit of the men. In the earlier days of Hong-
British Colonial life, the business and which, had he ilved, he would|upheld, traountry which it re-
vice,
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pages to
generation for and has occasionally
of
in the
hang's history, the local Press was my earnest belief that we shall
the next
it expedient to maintain its marked by a certain liveliness of ce within
revolutionary changes in Jour- journalistic dignity by launching spirit, which not infrequently led
in general, and, in Its nalism in
par- mild attacks on local
government invective and Editors
to incarceration. That Licular, radical changes in the or official institutions. But
In actual. policy It bas none. spirit was happily quenched long newspapers of the Far East.
the first place, I am convinced that The day is not far off, however, aro, and today the local news the day has come when the tabloid when newspaper palicy will be a
respec-** papers are more or less
or small-sized paper will
determinant factor replace very table news-sheets.
the bulky, unwieldy newspaper affairs of the Empire, as it has Far Eastern Difficulties.
which presents our news at the been to a considerable extent in The chief difficulty which news moment. It will not surprise me
Brital Whether this is entirely
is an desirable is ethical papers have to face in the Far if, within the next ten years, half moral or East to the comparatively small of the newspapers from Bombay
beyond the question quite
scope of foreign populations of the com- to Shanghal have adopted thin this taik, although I de maintain munities they serve. In British
that the Press should be as com- Lilliputan form. Malaya and in parts of China the
petent to represent the antion as have Torelyn
Opportunity for Universities. in-
the communities
politicians themselves. We shall see changes, too. iz The Press is the only true organ creased considerably in the last
editorials half century, due in a large the personnel of the
of democracy, for it alone is the measure to the marked improve-staffs, and I hope the day is not true voice of the people, and, if
our greater wisely ment in living conditions and the very far off when
guided. I believe that it will greater attention that has
the been Universitics at Home, and
in the future save us from repeti- paid to hygiene. Townships and leaser universities in the Orient, tions of many of the grave and from endow chairs of Journalism to be glaring blunders that have dis even cities have sprung Jungle wastes and swamps, and filled by men of scholarship and figured British foreign affaire, British and American business reputation, and when the staffs of particularly in India, in the last. houses have established branches newspapers are recruited from the generation.
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