Newspaper Article

Up rickety stairs to Star office

1992

Overview

All connected with it were determined that its light should at least not be hid under a bushel. Was there ever such haste, such bustle, such solicitous endeavor? Let the slightest \"local\" be missing and a \"chapel meeting\" must be held, with an irate city editor in the chair. And what undisguised satisfaction when a rival was compelled to admit defeat. In the offices of the metropolitan dailies, with which I am best acquainted, fret and fume are unknown words. This is particularly true of the New York Tribune, the newspaper which stands to the journalism of the United States as the London Times stands to the journalism of England. Mr. James Martin, who has recently succeeded the veteran Donald Nicholson as managing editor of this powerful organ of public opinion, once said to me: \"We want our men to do their best and to do their most; but we do not expect that they can do their best and their most all the time; and when the mistakes come, as come they must, nagging and fault-finding cannot mend matters. They do not help the inefficient, they do ruin the capable. Weed out the incompetent, encourage the competent. And always remember that the newspaper office which boasts a Damocles' sword is the newspaper office in which the best results will never be obtained.\"

• Publisher: Torstar Syndication Services, a Division of Toronto Star Newspapers Limited
• Subject: Bruce, H Addington