Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Observe in one corner the Communist organ, the Daily Worker, and in the other, the New York Times. The slogan of the former: "People's Champion of Liberty, Progress, Peace, and Prosperity" and of the latter: "All the News That's Fit to Print". Quoth the Worker on December 1 and 2, "The newspapers of this country are giving the American people a heavy dose of war propaganda," and "Twenty-five thousand newspapers lied to their readers yesterday . . . . . the respectable New York Times showed them how to do it." But the accused hat! answered a month before in an editorial...
Probably not one of the headlines above or of all those which have appeared during the two weeks of the Finnish war can be branded as completely false. But the wording of headlines and the rating of "news" stories make a mockery of the impartiality promised by newspapers. It is under these conditions that each morning millions of Americans who are uneducated to the poison of propaganda sit down to read their daily papers...
...applied in the two years the fellowships have been offered. Last year nine newspaper men studied at the university and this year twelve are studying. Represented this year are the United Press, the Associated Press, New York Herald Tribune, Petersburg (Va.) Progress-Index, Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, United States News, Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, Baltimore Evening Sun, Bismarck (N. Dak.) Leader, and the Boston Herald, and the Delta Democrat-Times (Greenville, Miss.) ford, author; Walter Lippman...
That the reasons for the change were "Commercial" is all the more cause for the "tremor of indignation" which affected the alumni when they heard the news, he continues...
...Holyoke Bookshop, which has a natural concern with its own financial problems, is surprised to find this interest shared by Councilor Sullivan and the CRIMSON to the extent of three news stories in a single week. The imaging the accounts of red nests and Moscow gold and police visits (no such police visit as the CRIMSON describes over occurred) are amusing, do doubt, but our laughter becomes a little wry when we see how this complements on a potty local scale the attempts of the Dies Committee to frighten liberals and progressives into inactivity and silence...