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Most of the authorities differed sharply with the criticisms presented by George Lichtheim in an article entitled "All the News That's Fit to Print" which appeared in the September issue of Commentary magazine...
...Lichtheim, a former correspondent himself and currently a visiting professor at Stanford, criticized the Times for overemphasixing "spot news" at the expense of more interpretive, "analytical coverage," and for allowing editorial biases to influence coverage of international affairs...
...Lichtheim asserted that the Times "persistently fails" to "acquaint its readers with the real drift of affairs abroad, notably when that drift--and this is where a kind of censorship appears to come in--runs counter to the editorial frame of reference...
Among those who disagreed strongly with Lichtheim's appraisal was Morton H. Halperin, assistant professor of Government. The Times, Halperin explained, "shares the weakness of American newspapers in general in interpreting the domestic policies of other countries." But Lichtheim, he said, "shares a European tendency to overlook the degree to which facts are important," and "for the facts, the Times can't be beat...
Almost all of those interviewed concurred with Halperin that the Times "compares very well" with Le Monde, the London Times and The London Daily Telegraph--the newspapers that Lichtheim favors...