ABSTRACT
A good journalist will find news oftener than a hack. If he sees a building with a dangerous list, he does not have to wait until it falls into the street in order to recognize news. Usually it is the stereotyped shape assumed by an event at an obvious place that uncovers the run of the news. The news does not tell you how the seed is germinating in the ground, but it may tell you when the first sprout breaks through the surface. He more points, then, at which any happening can be fixed, objectified, measured, named, the more points there are at which news can occur. Wherever there is a good machinery of record, the modern news service works with great precision. And when they give color to the abstract news that a strike has been called, it is in the nature of things that the workers are at a disadvantage.
