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CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| Errors redressed | 126 | |
| Other co-operative associations | 126 | |
| Different forms of news collecting agencies | 128 | |
| Proprietary associations | 128 | |
| Organizations controlled by a single paper | 129 | |
| Agencies controlled by government | 129 | |
| Co-operative associations | 130 | |
| Difficulties encountered by news agencies | 130 | |
| Court decisions on property in news | 131 | |
| Complications due to war | 131 | |
| International misunderstanding due to war | 132 | |
| Responsibilities entailed by war | 133 | |
| News-distributing agencies | 133 | |
| "Boiler-plate" and "ready-print" service | 134 | |
| Character of material used | 134 | |
| Dangers possible | 135 | |
| "Ready-made" book notices | 135 | |
| Newspaper distributing agencies | 136 | |
| The Times and the Napoleonic wars | 136 | |
| Central distributing agencies | 136 | |
| Relation of historian to newspaper distribution | 136 | |
| Importance of news collecting agencies to historian | 137 | |
| Chapter VI | ||
| The General Reporter | ||
| Parts of the newspaper affording guarantees | 138 | |
| Tests for authoritativeness applied to local reporter | 139 | |
| Sources of information available for reporters | 139 | |
| Regular recognized sources | 139 | |
| Occasional sources | 140 | |
| Special sources | 140 | |
| The "story" as written out | 140 | |
| Dickens as a reporter | 140 | |
| General criticism of the reporter | 141 | |
| Analysis of his errors possible | 142 | |
| Ignorance explains many errors | 142 | |
| Sensational ignorance | 143 | |
| Wilful ignorance | 143 | |
| Errors due to jesting | 144 | |
| Errors due to carelessness | 145 | |
| Love of sensation | 145 | |
| Errors of advertisers | 146 | |
| Proof-reader shares in errors | 146 | |
