Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of their amusement, the editors admitted that the press was the object of increasing denunciation. Recognizing these tendencies, the editors pontifically restated their "aims and ideals...
Freedom of the press notwithstanding, almost everything said and done at the annual Washington convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors is off the record. Farthest off the record is the informal "interview" with the President. But last week, when the nation's editors left the White House, their uncommon exhilaration revealed something of what had been said inside. The President had doffed the good humor which he invariably shows to the editors' reporters. What was to have been an interview became a lecture with the editors on the receiving end. The President told his callers that...
...growing criticism, to face it fairly, to set their houses in order, to be governed by good taste, by a sense of justice, by complete devotion to the public interest, and to toil unceasingly to educate our readers to such a sense of the value of a free press in America that the citizens of this republic shall become the willing cooperators, the fellow warriors with us, in a never-ceasing fight for the maintenance of democratic institutions...
Last month America, influential Jesuit weekly, announced a Bias Contest, with cash prizes for readers who found the worst examples of anti-Catholic bias in a month's reading of the U. S. press (TIME, March 7). Wrote Rev. John A. Toomey, S.J., in announcing the contest: "It is anti-Catholic bias if it misleads readers on any Catholic question." Last week, announcing the prizewinners, America attributed bias to the following publications, in the following order: 1) Bergen Evening Record (Hackensack, N. J.), 2) The Apprentice (New York University undergraduate magazine), 3) Ladies' Home Journal, 4) Fact Digest...
Philadelphia, who fought in the World War, did some advertising work before beginning, in 1921, the long, hard studies of a Jesuit. Ordained in 1931, he was assigned to America's staff four years ago. Believing that much of the U. S. press is biased, or uninformed, on Catholic matters, Father Toomey has in recent months written four articles on "propaganda" in the press. Last month, before the Bias Contest ended, he helped set up a Catholic organization to deal with erring editors...