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what the other is doing. Some kind of a co-ordinated group could lift the story out of the corners of the country to a nationwide status. It would be published generally and, with the entire news¬ paper profession Joining in the effort, effective pressure could be brought to bear on the proper authorities.
"As it is now, officials are too prone to consider one newspaper's constructive criticism, based on hitherto little known fact, as isolated and unimoortant.
"At the same time, a radio commentator speaks once and has a nationwide audience. If the news services won’t tell the true story because of fear of editorial or political bias, it is high time newspapers themselves got together. "
Replying to this, Editor & Publisher says:
"Conceding that there is a good bit of superficial cover¬ age of news from Washington, we don’t believe that radio is giving its audience more than readers get from their newspapers. In the case of tne Henderson resignation, cited as a 'horrible example* by Mr. Marshall, there was no failure on the part of the newspapers that we read to report the true facts. Mr. Henderson made no secret of the reason for his departure from OPA, and his statements were equally available to press and radio, and were equally used by both.
"Mr. Marshall's idea that a new organization be formed for the purpose of collecting and distributing purely national news seems to us an unnecessary diversion of man-power and brains from a pool which is already depleted by war. The three big press services are all represented at every point where news of national interest might develop, and if the Cedar Rapids Gazette or any other news¬ paper, large or small, turns up a story of more than local Interest, the chances are ten to one that that fact will get on the wires of at least one of the services.
"Certain it is that newspapers have much more to their credit during the past year than the organization of a successful drive for scrap. They have not lagged behind radio in the exposi¬ tion of important news, except for the inevitable fact that radio has been able to beat them to the street with the initial news of almost every important story. In our opinion, that fact has given radio no particular advantage in the public's mind. It has not weakened the newspaper as the major medium of public Information.
It has not hit at the foundations of the Constitutional guarantee of press freedom. "
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