Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Primarily a picture paper, the News's brief, breezy coverage of political news has, in a campaign marked by biased reporting, been comparatively impartial. To compensate for New Deal slanting, Publisher Patterson made a notable contribution to political journalism. Early last summer he announced that, for the remainder of the campaign, the News would daily donate the full page opposite the editorial page to the Republican and Democratic National Committees. Each camp could present whatever it liked in the way of argument, invective, cartoon; the News would print their contributions side by side without altering so much...
...once. On one day Tribune readers could find nowhere in their paper news of the President of the U. S. Following day appeared a short piece on page 13, reporting that the President had canceled his regular White House press conference, "presumably to avoid embarrassing questions about recent campaign developments...
...Whose campaign grew weaka and weaka...
...circulation: 394,000) is Hearst's American. But Publisher Knox, as he speaks through his paper, has been by no means so violent as Vice-Presidential Nominee Knox speaking from the stump. The News has generally front-paged a boondoggle story, exuded confidence in Republican victory, given Republican campaign news considerably more space than Democratic. But for campaign balance and fairness most observers rate it at Chicago...
...campaign by investigating Far Eastern politics in China...