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Handouts. There is now one Government press agent for every two bona fide correspondents and they tend more & more to substitute propaganda for fresh information. Their deluge of mimeographed "handouts," according to the Bureau of the Budget, now costs the Government about $1,000,000 a year...
Then came the run-around that the President gave them when he met Churchill. That sharpened their feeling that the President had played them for suckers. Subsequent White House press conferences did not lessen that feeling. More than ever they became aware that he was patronizing them and answering bona fide questions with irritable wisecracks. He no longer took them into his confidence, no longer bothered to explain why he would not talk - merely shut them off. So they asked Secretary Steve Early to intercede...
...himself yellow (Edmond O'Brien) and an amorous football hero (Robert Preston) is that the picture survives the plot's monkeyshines. Better left unmentioned is RKO's error in making its football chutist an All-American from Harvard, a university which has not turned out a bona fide All-American in nine years...
...Bona fide military secrets are accepted, and rightly so, in periods of war or crisis, but the army-navy attitude goes beyond this in an unwarranted fashion. Reporters are discouraged from printing unsavory material by the threat of blacklist--being refused access to government releases or press conferences. In this manner a quietus is put on reports of waste and inefficiency in the building of our national defense, so that optimistic generalities prevail. The absurd "voluntary censorship" on the presence of British warships in New York and San Francisco harbors was an attempt to keep ammunition from the isolationists. Coming...
...know, though, that Mayor LaGuardia always has been a friend of organized labor; bona fide organized labor...