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Variety's Editor Bob Landry has been a spectator of broadcasting and its people for nine years. Moonfaced, high-voiced, crinkle-grinning and articulate, he began by sticking his neck out and has affably continued to do so. His only bias lay in the fact that his readers are show people...
...Professor Morison's favorite stories concerns the yessing habits of Latin American Indians, which, he believes, account for some of the strange misinformation Columbus picked up. One day in the Gulf of Darien, Morison and friends took on a San Bias Indian as a pilot. They asked him: "Can we carry three fathoms of water through this passage?" "Yes," said the Indian. "Is there a good anchorage in there and can we get water?" "Yes," said the Indian. Then a mate who had had some experience with Indians took a hand. "Does the pink, pot-bellied ostrich live...
...first that Harvard students are completely behind the war effort. Even more heartening than the 78 per cent who thought we were right in going into the war is the 89 per cent who want us to fight it through to the finish. Also encouraging is the definite internationalist bias, evidenced by the 86 per cent who agreed that after the war we shall have to give up some national sovereignty, to cooperate with other nations...
That simple, natural, excusable national bias, combined with national censorship, would of necessity cramp your style, I had no doubt. And I felt sorrowfully reluctant to read a TIME relegated to propaganda, however compulsorily. So, immense credit is due you for stating honestly to your readers your exact position with regard to the news...
...Rosten's poll of Washington correspondents ranked the Tribune next to the Hearst press as "least fair and reliable" of all U.S. newspapers. That poll reflected the Tribune's savage anti-Roosevelt angling of news. Meantime its isolationist -propaganda -as-news-unsurpassed for furious bias since frontier journalism -has probably qualified the Tribune for first rank in any like poll in 1941. Alone among U.S. newspapers since 1933, the Tribune has got its papers burned in public bonfires, its offices rotten-egged. Also unique is the range of hatred for the Tribune: it cuts across all class lines...