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The article reviews the top 10 best daily newspapers in the U.S. in 1974. The top 10 best newspaper includes "The Chicago Tribune," "The Los Angeles Times," "The Louisville Courier-Journal," "The Miami Herald," "The Milwaukee Journal," "Newsday," "The New York Times," "The Wall Street Journal," "The Washington Post," and "Akron Beacon-Journal."

The article focuses on the Republican Party's influence on the American press. The American press today is pre-dominantly Republican. Democrats and independents have not only the right but the responsibility to point out to the public the bias in the source of their news. Ownership influence upon newspaper content and performance can be very large. Or this influence may be of a much lesser degree, as found by one study of "Midcity Daily," the pseudonym given a real-life paper. Some members of the editing-writing group shared in every decision on printing or not printing the news about "Midcity Daily."

Discusses the operations of the press in the small rural and town communities of the Middle West. Potent and far-reaching influence; One of the important instruments which shape current attitudes and opinions; Weekly newspaper whose editor shares the town's ideas, beliefs, and prejudices; Country editor was prone to editorialize freely in any news article as it suited his fancy; Increasing amount of advertising by large corporations; Widespread use of boilerplate material; Increase in economic and political partisanship.

United Press is a purely mercantile undertaking designed to make money, and it has been doing just that for the past twenty years. By its aggressiveness and enterprise it has built up a clientele of 1,250 papers--as large as that of the Associated Press--with this difference, that only 900 are in the U.S. while 350 are outside our boundaries. The United Press was founded originally to supply news only to evening papers. Ten years ago it enlarged its service to include morning papers, though the bulk of its clients are still evening newspapers. Within the past twelve months it has added no less than sixty-nine dailies to its list.

This article focuses on native journalism in Egypt. When a European editor and a European newspaper manager were ordered to leave Egypt last December, it became evident that the government had decided to show a firm hand by means of the press. These two men were conducting a French-Arabic paper owned by nationalists, and their respective consuls because of an article attacking the Khedive expelled them. In a country like Egypt, it may be fairly said that the native press gives an almost certain indication of the most advanced stage of education. These daily articles by natives should show the existence of any literary achievement.

Focuses on the role of the press in two consecutive U.S. election. Comments on the drifting of the press into bias by negation; Comparison between the newspapers published on the first three days of a week in the two consecutive election campaigns; Discussion of the comparative quiet of the papers on the campaign several weeks ago.

The article presents information related to Adolf Hitler. The day following Hitler's accession to power a famous paper, the Commercial and Shipping Gazette of Gotenburg, struck a note which was soon to be echoed in the editorials of the civilized press throughout the world. The Nazis undoubtedly owe most to their ruthless employment of force and terrorism, but ruse also played a part in the early days.

The newspapers in the U.S. are more widely read than ever before in its history. A high percentage of the newspapers that survive steadily grow stronger in a financial way and usually keep increasing their circulation totals. The newspapers are growing in disfavor among the labor groups and certain classes of farmers. Newspaper owners usually employ writers who are capable of making their news readable. There are many enterprises and issues which newspaper owners feel compelled to favor for public or personal or political reasons, and many others of which they disapprove and desire their readers to disapprove.

The article discusses how the newspapers could regain its lost position as the basic news coverage medium. It is stated that a program of cooperative research is to be implemented by the newspapers to regain their prestige. It is suggested that the reputation for flexibility should be capitalized by the newspapers. It is recommended to reexamine the national and local rates of newspapers.

Focuses on the influence of newspapers on the society. Statement that the good old elective system by which a reader could choose a journal suited to his taste has curtailed; Claim that the survival of the fittest operates in journalism just as in other fields; View that to a considerable extent the general public has been extremely short-sighted in not being more active in protecting its own vital interest in a free and varied press; Significance of adequate newspaper coverage; Opinion that the reader should make sure he's right by obtaining first-hand factual information through representatives of his own choosing, and then by all means be should go ahead; Reflection of the rising tide of concentration in journalistic power.

Focuses on rural press lord John Perry's control of weekly newspapers in the United States. Supply of canned news and features through the Western Newspaper Union syndicate; Location of 35 branch offices of Western Newspaper Union; Attitude of the newspaper on foreign news; Bolstering of a free and independent country press; Revenues from newspaper advertising campaign; Connection between editorial.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in the previous issues. Appreciation of the article "The Press and the Public," published in the March 17 issue; Comment on the statement published in the March 3 issue, in which the journal appraised the news paper "The Manchester Guardian"; Comment on the review of the book "Army Without Banners," by Ernie O. Malley; Information on the career of Robert Allison Evans in coal mining industry.

The article offers updates on journalism. The truck drivers' union Teamster Local 610 had attacked the newspaper "Post-Dispatch" after the negotiations between the newspaper and its truck drivers for a new automated delivery system in Saint Louis, Missouri. The Capitol Hill News Service would set five reporters to track the 40-50 preselected congressmen in Washington D.C., taking investigative and feature coverage on the legislators. Journalist Jack Begon of the American Broadcasting Co. (ABC) was said to be kidnapped by the criminal organization Mafia when he was gone missing in Italy.

The article focuses on the newspaper "Christian Science Monitor." When the Titanic's sinking furnished the press with the greatest "story" that ever came from land or sea prior to the World War, the "Monitor," never mentioned the name of a single one of the 1,500 men and women who died. In its newscolumns it seeks to present accurately and fairly the things it is permitted to report. The salient and striking fact is that the "Monitor," unlike so many of its contemporaries, seeks to place its foreign correspondence on the level of that of the best English newspapers.

In Soviet Union it is still the popular notion that the Soviet press is made up of a few government-owned official sheets faithfully carrying out the dictations of the powers that be, that the Soviet journalist is a mute slave of whom only blind obedience is required or expected. Somehow this conception of the Soviet press does not bear out the fact that of the score of leading dailies published in Moscow and Petrograd alone no two are quite alike in character. Each one of these newspapers has its distinct individuality, which makes it easier to distinguish between two newspapers in collectivist communist Soviet Union than in individualist America.

Focuses on the state of American journalism and the factors influencing it. Comparison of news reporting with the previous years; Impact of newspaper's circulation on advertisers; Change in the attitudes of columnists about newspaper policies; Emergence of trade unionism in the newspaper world; Significance of reporters in journalism; Factors that have forced many newspapers to fill their inside pages with features; Example of Sam Newhouse, a publisher and a businessman who operates newspapers without regard to views.

The article reports on the syndicated news services of the publishing company Nwe York Times News Service in the U.S. It mentions that the company came to stand alone among the running syndicated news services due to its influence and how subscribers used their stories. It highlights how journalist Bruce Rae began to sort background stories that publishing companies Associated Press and United Press International Inc. seldom provide.

Focuses on the newspaper, Your Newspaper's indictment of the press for wholesale abuse of the American Society of Newspaper Editors' code of ethics. Criticisms posed by the authors on business and economic reporting; Description of the failure of business news in relating a news item to its implications; Recollection of the press handling of the 1946 railroad strike as one of the most amazing performances in the annals of journalism.

Presents an insight into the functioning of German press and the influence of the U.S. and the Soviet Union's occupation of Germany on it. Details of German press born after the Second World War which was governed by the four powers occupying Germany; Division of Germany and German press into two zones one the Soviet Union and the other the U.S.; View that the German press no longer expresses German thought, but the ideological battle occupying powers; Reference of tight zonal rules which prevent the free flow of newspapers from one zone to the other; Information on the propaganda war raging in the German press.

Those today responsible for the conduct of the periodical The Nation look back to its fifty years of life with a kind of proud humility. The secure past is not theirs, yet they, as inheritors of a high tradition, must not discredit it. The periodical's influence in shaping the American press was out of all proportion to the mere number of its readers. It did not strive nor cry. The effects it wrought were subtle and insinuated, never clamorous. A virtue went out from it, which was unconsciously absorbed by many newspaper writers. They could scarcely hate said where they got their new impulse to exercise a judgment independent of party. All can raise the flowers now, for all have got the seed. Today the most powerful newspapers in the United States are those, which have the reputation of being always ready, on a question of real principle, to snap the green withes with which politicians would bind them.

Reflects upon the quality of news reports reaching the U.S. about the collapse of Allied and U.S. intervention in the affairs of Russia. Description of the relations between Russia and the Allied world; Misleading reports suggesting that Soviet Russia refused to comply to the Allied calls for a suspension of hostilities; Interpretations of the Russian position about the cessation of military activities; Possible alterations made by reporters to the Soviet reply to a proposed plan for a purely humanitarian commission for the provisioning of Russia prepared by Fridtjof Nansen; Character of the news about Russia and the Red peril.

Reflects of the quality of news reports reaching the U.S. from the Bolshevik revolution to the ratification of the treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Emergence of different points of view about the revolution and the strength of the leadership of Vladimir Lenin and Leo Trostky; Reports inspired by curiosity about the diplomatic battle between the Bolsheviks and their enemies; Pro-Bolshevik nature of the news; General assumption that the Soviets would refuse to make peace with Germany; Terms of the Brest-Litovsk treaty ratified by the Soviets and the Germans.

The article presents information on several newspapers and journals which were published in Great Britain in 1864. These newspapers and journals include "The Daily Universal Register," "The Morning Post," "The Morning Herald," "The Morning Chronicle," and "The General Advertiser." "The Daily Universal Register" had four pages and was composed by a new process, with types consisting of words and syllables instead of single letters.

Reflects on the quality of news about the Russian Revolution reaching the U.S. Background on the revolution that ended the reign of Czar Nicholas II and the fostered the beginning of communism; Concerns over the fighting power of Russia on the great eastern front of the war with the Germans; Account of Russia's military strength; News stories about the German offensive in Galicia; Optimism in the captions and the emphasis in news reports.

The article discusses the American press and journalism. No more than a river can the stream of news rise higher than its source. For the Associated Press, the sources within the United States are its members, except where it has established its own bureaus in the leading cities with special reporting staffs. Thus, in all places where it cannot maintain its own correspondents it calls upon each member newspaper for all the local news which that member has gathered. The member, cannot sell that news to other news services, and must hold itself in readiness to supply as much or as little news of a given event in its territory as the Associated Press may desire.

The article discusses the philosophy of journalism adopted by Arthur Christiansen, former editor of "The London Daily Express" newspaper in London, England. Christiansen describes his approach to newspapers as one that is based on the idea that when readers read the pages, they would utter a profanity to express their excitement. He is also known for his being conscientious when it comes to journalistic fashion. Also explored are changes to "The London Daily Express" under his editorship.

The article discusses the return of contemporary form of journalism which is known as "investigative reporting" which owes a good deal to the muckrakers of the early 1900s. Its states that three year back only one or two of the 36 newspapers had investigative reporters at Columbia University's American Press Institute. It states that the periodical "Newsday," a permanent team of four investigative reporter and sometimes raised to eleven for special projects. It also states that the Newsday team disclosures about an unusually profitable sale of some U.S. president Richard Nixon's stocks.

Reflects upon the deductions to made from the constructive criticism of the press coverage of the Russian Revolution by U.S. newspapers. Recommended improvements to the professional standards of journalism; Misleading reports released by the "New York Times," due to its over reliance upon the official purveyors of information; Concerns over the trustworthiness of certain correspondents because their sympathies are too deeply engaged; Breakdown of the time honored tradition of protecting the news against editorials; Intrusion of an editorial bias in the reporting which will require serious reform.

This article focuses on the issue of yellow journalism. The power of molding opinion has long been passed into the hands of the press. As a strange fate would have it, too, the subject on which the press exerts most influence is war. The fomenting of war and the publication of spurious accounts of war have, in fact, become almost a special function of that portion of the press which is known as yellow journals. The war increases their circulation immensely. They profit enormously by what inflicts sorrow and loss on the rest of the community.

The article presents information on the book "A Free and Responsible Press." The book has importance in the long struggle for a truly free press that is beginning all over again because of technical advances which have wiped out the old freedom of any effective journalist who could hire a handpress to start an effective newspaper. A chief service of the book is that it makes criticism of the press respectable. Surely no one will accuse the general counsel of the Pennsylvania Railroad of following the Party Line.

Presents the author's views on newspaper business. Claim of the newspaper "New York Globe," that readers of newspapers demand redundancy; View of the newspaper that most people read so carelessly that a single statement of a fact is not enough to make an impression on them; View that a newspaper reflects the soul of a man who owns it and put himself into it.