Enterrpising Journalism

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ENTERPRISING JOURNALISM.—

To say that our cotemporary the Star¹ has become slightly eccentric, is to express a very obvious truth in very mild terms. Last evening it prefaced its contents by the following unaccountable announcement, the terms of which are as ridiculous as the purpose indicated:

NO PAPER FROM THIS OFFICE TO MORROW.—To morrow being the day for election of important State and County officers, and consideration that the largest portion of our subscribers will engaged in doing their duty to their country and not much disposed to read newspapers we concluded to suspend the publication of the STAR till Wednesday.

The Star must have a precious slow set of subscribers, if they will be engaged all the day in the simple act of voting. It is to be inferred, also, that ladies are not among them, for these certainly will have no unusual indisposition to read newspapers. In fact, of all days in the year people are most “disposed to read newspapers” on election day, and that day is the last occasion that any man having intelligence enough to be a newspaper reader, (much less an editor) would select for suspending publication. It may be excusable away in the backwoods, where one man fills every post from editor down to office boy, for publication to be suspended when the universal genius of this establishment happens to be absent; but to follow such an example, in daily city journalism is a striking evidence of how old fogyism invariably degenerates into retrogression. We seem to be reading one of the four-by-nine journals of the last century, in meeting such a paragraph as the above.

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