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sheets" as "paid propagandists" for the "pro-Communist" Acheson State Department. Sevareid said recently: "This sort of thing, the organized pressure and the vituperative letters and calls one some- times gets, produce a feeling of depression or distress in a man. Any fairly sensitive person cannot help but react." Sevareid contends that a commentator ought in fairness to be judged by his approach to events. "Some try to be fair, to be objec- tive — in the sense of avoiding partisanship, not hi the sense of being neutral. Some are tendentious." This, he feels, is the difference. "Involved too is the special problem of the writer, an essentially private problem which does not submit to formulae and which rarely is understood, even by network executives, certainly not by those who are organizing pressure campaigns to score points for one side or the other." Martin Agronsky of ABC is a "cooperatively" sponsored liberal commentator who has been the target of heavy pressure in recent years. "Even though I have experienced some heavy going at tunes, I have been commercial. The network has backed me up. That's all I ask." Agronsky says, however, that the problem in deal- big with the various pressures which affect commentators is simply that responsible people in the networks and stations frequently fail to find out whether allegations against commentators are true or not. A station manager may panic at an organized letter campaign. Agronsky feels the networks must choose their commentators care- fully, assuring themselves they have a responsible staff, and then back them to the hilt. Drew Pearson had some specific troubles. Senator McCarthy made an attack against him on the Senate floor which caused the commentator to lose his sponsor. Pearson feels that the McCarthy attack also frightened off some prospective television sponsors. He sued McCarthy for libel and has attempted to draw the Senator into repeating the charges outside the Senate. Elmer Davis of ABC says: "I don't doubt that plenty of people 87