Communists lecture the media
The call was intended to strike a nerve among politically sensitive French journalists. Instead, it drew jeers of cynicism and outrage. Nonetheless, all of France remained fascinated last week with an extraordinary campaign by the Soviet government and the French Communist Party that demanded a greater diversity of views in the reporting by France's state-run radio and television networks. The reason for the hubbub was easy to discern: a desire to affect French news coverage of the Italian allegation that the Bulgarian secret police, and by implication the...
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