The first substantial increase in the cable news to the Far East really came with the advent of the Great War, and where before cable wordage amounted to a few hundred a day, thousands took their place. Even they were never sufficient to tax the capacity of the paper, and the editorial technique was dominated more by a consideration of how to fill it than by the careful selection of news which is now the principal feature. It is no idle boast to state that in this present day and age tens of thousands of words arrive in local newspaper offices daily, of which a very fair*proportion never see the light of day. Not because there is anything in the nature of suppression, but because the large number of news agencies whose services are now available duplicate a great deal of each other's news. In addition to which some of the more. blatantly propagandist services issue information which sub-editorial nose quickly discovers has a tendencious odour.
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