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...very important for us to have more Washington newspapermen qualified to write on economic subjects, including complicated issues of public finance and world trade," explains Robertson, who is studying here under the aegis of the Nieman foundation. "There are too many in Washington," he continues, "who can handle only some of our public issues from the political angle, as they would a local story on machine politics...
...Robertson has had a varied and colorful career. After working on the business board of the Michigan University daily, he got a job as a cub reporter on the Washington Times, a Hearst paper, and followed his apprenticeship there by a ten year term as correspondent for the Associated and United Press services...
...disgusted with newspaper work, then," he relates, "because I found that a journalist cannot write what he wants on contemporary economic subjects." While granting the relative freedom of the American press, Robertson points out that "every reporter knows how his paper or press association wants an article written. Newspapers are big businesses, and are naturally on the conservative side of things...
After two years as Assistant Director of Information for the Farm Security Administration, Robertson applied for a position on the newly founded New York daily, PM, and was assigned to its Washington bureau...
...always felt that this country needed a newspaper that would print news that wasn't being printed," the quiet journalist adds, "and many of us had dreams of a paper that had no advertising." It was with the founding of PM in 1940 that Robertson returned to active newspaper work...