This week is celebrated by the press as National Newspaper Week. Candidates Roosevelt and Dewey vied with each other in tributes to the U.S. pressto its "courage, loyalty and integrity" (Roosevelt), to "the freest, most interesting and most informative press in the world" (Dewey).
Despite the Presidential overture, a considerable majority of the U.S. press continued, as usual in recent years, to favor the Republican candidate. As usual, New Dealers cited this fact as evidence that the "power of the press" is vastly overrated. What they failed, as usual, to take into account was that in most U.S. newspapers political partisanship is...
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