Word: pro-republican
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...much has been said about a "one-party press," frequently as the result of confused thinking. To some the term has meant the predominantly pro-Republican editorial stand in the nation's press; to others it has referred to allegedly biased handling of news coverage. Rowse is careful to emphasize the great difference between partisanship on the editorial page and partisanship in the news columns. It is the latter that provide the real test of a paper's objectivity...
Rowse found the charges of news bias to be valid--in selection, in display and in tone--on both political sides, but preponderantly in the pro-Republican direction. He concluded that, "with the possible exception of the New York Times, all papers--both Republican and Democratic--showed evidence of favoritism in their news columns in violation of their own accepted rules of conduct," and that "almost every example of favoritism in the news columns coincided with the paper's editorial feelings." This "would indicate that over 80 percent of the nation's newspaper readers may be getting their editorials with...
Moderately biased (both pro-Republican): New York World-Telegram and Sun; Philadelphia Evening Bulletin (which boasted of its fair political coverage...
...probably will go to Adlai Stevenson again this year. The 75% margin by which he won them in 1952, however, is now expected to be reduced to something like 60%-65%. In states where national or local races are close, e.g., Missouri, California. Michigan, Ohio, New York, such a pro-Republican shift could be all-important...
Unchained. The Globe-Democrat's Owner Ray wanted a buyer who would not change the pro-Republican paper radically and who would not sell it eventually to the thriving (daily circ. 387,398, Sunday 460,501) evening St. Louis Post-Dispatch, thereby giving the P-D a monopoly. Newhouse filled the bill. The day he took over, Newhouse announced that Ray would stay on as publisher. He also said there would be no major staff changes and that the paper's present editors, executives and 1,200 employees will continue to run the daily. But Newhouse expects...