Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sale. The Cincinnati Enquirer, which was recently put on the block (TIME, May 3), was hauled off again. Washington's American Security & Trust Co., which holds the paper in trust, announced that it "has received no bid ... which was considered adequate." The trustees' definition of adequacy: around...
What had brought on the disaster? One obvious cause: falling revenue and inflated costs had squeezed the profit out of the newspaper business. Ten years ago an eight-page paper sold for half a franc; today a four-pager costs 5 francs. And newsprint has gone from 2,500 francs a ton in 1939 ($62.76) to 35,000 ($114.63). Furthermore, the sins of the prewar press had been visited on the postwar press...
Most of the prewar press worked for the Nazis during the occupation. When they fled, the 1,000 "tainted" publications were seized and their sullied titles banned. Today no Paris paper may bear the name of Le Matin, Le Petit Parisien, Le Temps, L'Oeuvre or Paris-Soir, among others. Some 300 publishers have still to stand trial...
Going, Going . . . After the liberation of France, 34 Parisian dailies started up. Last week there were only 19 left (plus 170 weeklies). Most likely survivors of the present crisis: the mildly Socialist France-Soir* edited by hard-boiled Pierre Lazareff (TIME, June 23) and now France's biggest paper (circ. 641,000); the Communist Humanite; the Catholic Figaro, famed for its high literary standards; L'Aurore, which rides the De Gaulle bandwagon; the witty, leftist (but not quite Commie) Franc-Tireur; sober Le Monde, the businessman's bible; and Parisien Libere, favorite of the petit bourgeoisie...
...wobbly French press is no longer either powerful or corrupt. No foreign power can plant a campaign, for a price, in a French paper-except, of course, in L'Humanite, which sometimes reads as if it were edited in the Kremlin. Nor can government ministers phone editors, as they did before the war, and tell them what to print and what to kill...