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The Wheeling Daily Register
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia
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A Philadelphia councilman proposes supplying newspapers with official city council proceedings to ensure accuracy and limit public reports, criticizing daily journals for errors and irrelevant debates. The Cincinnati Commercial satirically suggests verbatim reporting as revenge, noting the irony and poor eloquence it would expose.
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A Philadelphia Councilman, the other day offered a resolution to furnish the newspapers with an official copy of the proceedings of the City Council, the same to be the only public report attainable. The mover of the resolution said the proceedings, as printed in the daily journals, were not always correct, and that debates are sometimes published that are of no interest to the public.
Upon this the Cincinnati Commercial comments as follows: The trouble here is the usual one. The fault of the "infernal reports" is excessive correctness. If the press of Philadelphia wants a proper revenge it ought now to report the Council verbatim. How the bones of Lindley Murray would rattle; and what a storm of aldermanic complaints there would be about the astonishing inaccuracies. The man who introduced the resolution, no doubt, would rather sell his shadow to the devil than have his official utterances printed in the original package; so he proposes to regenerate the newspaper business.
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The Other Day
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Philadelphia councilman offers resolution for official council proceedings to newspapers as sole public report, citing inaccuracies and irrelevance in daily journals; Cincinnati Commercial comments satirically on irony of verbatim reporting exposing poor language and complaints.