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Yank will be edited "solely and exclusively for us in the ranks and for nobody else." So announced the staff of the Army's weekly tabloid 66 issues ago. But somebody had different ideas...
...that the State Department is anti-Russian led the President to call him a "chronic liar," said that an Administration "Gestapo" had been tapping his wires. Government officials who had telephoned him, he declared, had since been confronted by their superiors with transcriptions of the conversations. The New York tabloid PM reported that Pearson's syndicator, United Features, had refused to allow him to reply to the President. PM published what it reported was a banned column, in which Pearson elaborated on the statements that had provoked the Presidential wrath...
...When New York City's experimental, ad-less tabloid PM was born, few newsmen expected it to last long. This week PM is three years old and growing. Its policy is still the same: pro-underdog, proLabor, pro-Roosevelt. Its circulation has gone up since its 70,000 low near 1940's end, but is still a long haul from the estimated 250,000 PM needs to get into the black...
...comparison with Russian single-mindedness, the Chinese press has an almost democratic diversity and vivacity. No newspapers have been suppressed outright except the "mosquito" tabloids which before the war achieved a lewdness beyond description. Competing for readers in Chungking are 13 dailies, including the Communist paper, the "liberal" Ta Rung Pao, the Roman Catholic Social Welfare Daily (Yih Shih Pao), the racy evening tabloid, New People's Daily (Hsin Min Pao), and the official Kuomintang and Army sheet, Central Daily News (Chung Yang Jih Pao), which has a partly free circulation of 150,000-perhaps more than...
...London Daily Mirror, splashy, successful tabloid (circulation: 1,850,000, England's second largest), thrives partly because it is sexy. Its most popular comic strip "Jane," features shapely ladies an inch nearer naked than U.S. comic artists dare draw: the straight news the Mirror prints is generously laved in sob sisters' gravy. (One recent article announced that motherhood is the "Cinderella of the Professions," and urged all young wives to bear at least four children...