Word: news
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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...
...News readers have been treated to the spectacle of crack Republican and Democratic pressagents in-fighting as never before, exchanging curse for curse, sneer for sneer, puff for puff. After a week's trial Publisher Patterson offered his entertaining and educational innovation free to other newspapers through the Chicago Tribune-New York News-Syndicate. The 29 takers which he had last week did not include his syndicate partner in Chicago...
Addressed to a gumchewing audience which has power at the polls if not in the parlor, the News's editorials are simple, colloquial, concrete, hard-hitting. Publisher Patterson writes some himself, furnishes ideas for others to smart Reuben Maury. Sample excerpts...
Observed a critic of the Capitalist press in the radical New Masses last week: "The [New York] Daily News, pro-Roosevelt, pro-NRA, is utterly insincere. The proof? It is owned by the McCormick Chicago Tribune...
...History, The Red writer's ignorance of Publisher Patterson, of his history and the history of his House, was common, excusable. While "Bertie" McCormick has loudly functioned outside his newspaper and made himself one of the most widely discussed publishers in the land, "Joe" Patterson has let the News be his voice, kept his person in the background...