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5/7/43
GOVERNMENT BOOKLET CHARGES RADIO NEWS DISTORTION
Political propaganda at last has invaded the public school system of the United States, David Lawrence, syndicated columnist, writes. With the sponsorship and encouragement of various agencies of the Government, certain New Dealers and radical-minded educators have together put something over on the National Education Associa¬ tion, using that non-partisan organization as the medium for extoll¬ ing the philosophy of an omniscient and all-wise State, Mr. Lawrence continues.
"For years, alert-minded educators and citizen Boards of Education throughout the United States have rightly been on guard to keep the public schools free from the intrusions of political or economic indoctrination. But now under the guise of 'helping to win the war', a far-flung scheme of Governmentmade 'education1 has been worked out wnich is designed primarily for high school students, but it openly calls also for 'adult education' among the parents to wnom the propaganda is to be brought from the schools to the home by the students.
"A new 93-page, expensively illustrated textbook, entitled 'My Part in This War', has been designed for use in the classroom.
"Thus high school students will find these impressions with regard to press and radio in the book:
"That the press and radio, while generally patriotic and co-operative, nevertheless do distort at times Government announce¬ ment so as 'to make the news more interesting', that 'most editors' deliberately 'passed up' a speech by Vice President Wallace which the book calls 'outstanding', and that the 'facts on rubber shortage were grossly and persistently confused, occasionally to the private advantage of those muddying the waters'.
"That the press and radio, in their 'treatment of informa¬ tion', are under the 'divided influence of the Government, the pub¬ lic audience, the advertisers, and the owners, with the owners hav¬ ing the final word'. This is coupled with the statement that 'our Government does not control the press and radio as they are control¬ led in other countries' and that 'it ('our Government) has only a limited influence over what they say and do'.
"There is no explanation as to whether this is a hint that the example of other governments which control the press might bet¬ ter be followed but the student is certainly left with the command that it is his duty 'to support those channels of information' which conform to the text book' s concept of how to win the war. "
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