{"id":268614,"date":"2025-10-01T07:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/268614\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T07:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:38:09","slug":"a-newspaper-for-dallas-now-and-for-years-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/268614\/","title":{"rendered":"A newspaper for Dallas, now and for years to come"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cTis not birth, nor wealth, nor state\/ But git-up-and-git that makes men great.\u201d<\/p>\n

So wrote the Texas Farmer in response to a blip published in Galveston\u2019s The Daily News on May 24, 1885, that the paper would soon establish a branch office in the young city of Dallas. <\/p>\n

On Oct. 1 of that year, the News made good on its promise, and the press rolled on Commerce Street.<\/p>\n

Now, 140 years on, here we remain as witness and recorder of the people and occurrences that shape our great city and state. <\/p>\n

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The Texas Farmer must have known something true and deep about George Bannerman Dealey, the newspaper he would oversee and the place he would lead from a town of train tracks and crossroads into a powerful American city.<\/p>\n

Dallas is nothing if not a city of git-up-and-git. It\u2019s a place willed into being by the belief of those who came here that it could be a center of commerce and industry, a place where a person could make a mark based on smarts, hard work and a desire to succeed.<\/p>\n

This sense of self-reliance and a spirit of independence have defined Dallas and shaped the editorial voice of this newspaper for generations. <\/p>\n

Now, as we celebrate 140 years of publication, we also celebrate a new era of ownership and stewardship that will see us continue this important work for generations to come.<\/p>\n

G.B. Dealey and his family treated The Dallas Morning News not just as a business but as a public trust<\/a>, as a pillar of Dallas. They believed in our city and its potential. They wanted the paper to hold it accountable when it failed and urge it forward to success.<\/p>\n

In our time, we have been blessed to have Dealey\u2019s great-grandson, Robert W. Decherd, carry on his family\u2019s tradition <\/a>of ensuring that The News upholds the highest journalistic standards while maintaining the financial strength to sustain a robust newsroom.<\/p>\n

His decision to sacrifice personal financial gain to see The News sold to Hearst<\/a>, a company dedicated to strong journalism, only demonstrates the depth of devotion he and his family have for our work and our city.<\/p>\n

No one pretends that the path forward will be easy. We live in an age when sources of information are fragmented in countless shards, and falsehoods have more standing than facts.<\/p>\n

That only makes this work so much more urgent. And it only energizes our own determination to carry it forward under new ownership.<\/p>\n

The News has always been about a belief in Dallas, in reflecting the city back upon itself. <\/p>\n

Tomorrow is another day to do that work. We will be there with git-up-and-git. <\/p>\n

We welcome your thoughts in a letter to the editor. See the guidelines and <\/b>submit your letter here<\/b><\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n

If you have problems with the form, you can submit via email at <\/b>letters@dallasnews.com<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTis not birth, nor wealth, nor state\/ But git-up-and-git that makes men great.\u201d So wrote the Texas Farmer…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":268615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[127051,5229,1596,6083,398,358,72484,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-268614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-140-years-of-the-dallas-morning-news","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-editorials","12":"tag-media","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-the-dallas-morning-news","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115297773411158214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}