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Focuses on several newspapers published in the U.S. Comments on the people who have funded for the newspaper "Washington Times"; Discussion of Warren Adler, founder of the newspaper "Dossier"; Reasons for the popularity of the newspaper "Washington Times" in the U.S.; Circulation of the newspaper "The News World" in the U.S.; Comparison of the "Washington Times" with any other conservative newspaper in the U.S.

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.

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.

Focuses on the future of American journalism with reference to the conduct of press in the 1936 election campaign in the U.S. View that the press is getting worse in so far as it represents the attitudes and aspirations of those who have become the voice of big business or capitalists; Reference of censorship as an important issue with the American press; Decline in the influence of editorial page in the journals; Effect of radio on the press; Suggestions for improvement of the press.

Comments on the revival of the question of elitist posture of editorial pages arising from "The Philadelphia Inquirer" newspaper's publication of an editorial proposing that welfare mothers be given incentives to use the long-term contraceptive Norplant to ameliorate the impoverishment of black America. Ensuing insurrection the Inquirer newsroom; Question of for whom a newspaper is speaking for when it takes an editorial position; Possible solutions, including the abolition of editorials.

Focuses on the proposed implementation of the right-to-reply law in the U.S. Publication of the reply of political candidate in the newspaper; Growth of media monopolies; Freedom of the press; Judgment on Florida's right-to-reply law; Fair campaign practices statute passed in 1913 by the Florida legislature; Absence of conflict between the right-to-reply law and the First Amendment; Self-criticism of the press.

Comments on the job role of White House press reporters. Information that the profession of journalism can kill the reporter, sentencing him or her to the living journalistic death of taking down announcements and passing them on; Efforts made by press offices to make sure that their reporters do not miss any news; Discussion on chances given to reporters by their employers to go on a trip for covering presidential press conferences.

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.

Presents information regarding Iowa-bred John and Gardner Cowles, youngest of America's press lords, who have brought to the publishing world a quick-acting formula for success. Acquiring and building of properties by the brothers in the previous decade; Observation that Cowles brothers have won a national liberal reputation; Description of the personalities of Cowles bothers.

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.

Focuses on the laws imposed on the press by the South African government which led to the print media's failure in delivering information to society. Enactment of laws that curtail individual freedom and right to free speech; Legislation aimed at preventing publishing information on the activities of the South African police and armed forces; Prohibition of the media from entering riot areas.

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.

Discusses the role of the press in society. Dissemination of public news; Providing intelligence regarding the public health, morals and safety; Mouthpiece of the statesman and lawmaker; Educator in literature, art and science; Influence on the home, morality and religion; Saint Louis Court of Appeals' ruling on the case of a merchant who refused to pay his bill for a Sunday advertisement on the “Post-Dispatch”.

Focuses on issues concerning the royal family of Great Britain. View that it is difficulty for a U.S. citizen to realize the strident piety that was applied to the royal family in Great Britain; Hindsight of the royal family; Discourse on the history of involvement of the British press in the affairs of the royal family.

Criticizes public relations firms in the U.S. led by Carma International for claiming that they can turn bad press into good. Views that contracts entered into by Carma with corporate and government clients represent the triumph of the spin doctors; Stories on activities of the U.S. Department of Energy that were covered by the press; Criticism against the notion that reporters can be summoned to some sort of re-education camp.

Presents updates on politics in West Africa as of January 19, 1963. Censorship of foreign correspondents in West Africa; Political rivalry between the North and South Nigerian population; Claim that the main problem facing the government will be the unemployed school dropouts from the villages; Views that Ghana's intelligentsia's discontent is expressed in radical pan-Africanism; Overview of contradictory topics reported by the press in Ghana.

Focuses on how the press creates the public interest in the United States. Impact of journalism; Role of editors and photographers; Reporter's writing of serial mystery novel using real names and places as tags for their quite fictitious characters.

Discusses the press' misquotation of U.S. Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson regarding his statements at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the $400 million loan to Greece and Turkey. Question by Walter Judd on whether the reason for the proposed legislation is based on the belief that Communist-dominated governments in Turkey and Greece would be dangerous to U.S. security; Affirmative answer by Acheson; Follow-up question on whether a Communist-dominated government on the Pacific in China would also be considered dangerous; Wire reports by George Reedy of the United Press and Milt Dean Hill of the Associated Press, indicating that Acheson considered dangerous to the security of the U.S. to have Communist-dominated governments anywhere.

This article focuses on the concept of news bias in U.S. press, with specific reference to political campaigning of 1956 and coverage of these campaigning by several journals. An editor who tries to maintain fairness to both parties by allotting more or less equal space to each party on any given day will generally overrate or underrate the importance of news stories. "News value" may not be precisely measurable but it exists. Several journals have been examined to find out the subordination of "news value" to mechanical "balancing." In news treatment, the editorial preference plays a vital role which ultimately affects public perception of a particular news.

Presents an overview of the press and journalism in the U.S. Reference to the book "Merry-Go-Round," by Drew Pearson and Bob Allen; View that the book deplores sweeping attacks on the press and states that Washington journalism on the whole is doing a good job in the most open news capital of the world; Statement that the worst fault of the American press today is not partisanship, but trivialization; Discussion of the problems faced by the press in future years; Report that U.S. President Herbert Hoover believed in weak government, low taxes, minimum federal regulation, and salvation by the free market; Information on the reduction of income in the higher brackets.

Focuses on the relationship between advertising and the free press. Neutrality of advertisers in news coverage; Accuracy of news coverage; Importance of advertising for publishers.

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.

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.

Reflects on the administration of U.S. President Ronald Reagan's issuance of White House press guidelines requiring aides to get clearance from the Office of Communications director David Gergen before granting interviews, and encouraging those who are authorized to talk to do so on record. Background on the guidelines that were drafted in response to a spate of leaks about the budget and intramural White House conflict; Reporters' denouncement of the guidelines as a gag order, claiming that some aides have been prevented from talking, which inhibits the press' ability to get to the bottom of an issue; Efforts of the White House to be more generous about making authorized spokespersons available since the guidelines came down; Calls for the White House to lift the gag order because its moment of crisis is over and genuine good news has started to emerge.

Presents information on the change that has come over the spirit and manners and disposition of Washington D.C., since U.S. President Warren Gamaliel Harding, has started living in the town. View that the Presidents has quickly won for himself a great body of local favorable public opinion; Claim that in the local area now under observation, at rate, the normalcy so long ago set forth as one of the chief ends to be attained, has been achieved; Description of the past social-political atmosphere of the town; View that the Washington atmosphere today is that of Old Home Week or a college class reunion; News which has gone all over the country, that the White House is open again and it has been given an interpretation and significance far beyond its value; Details of the Presidents meeting with the Washington correspondents.

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.

Discusses the findings of a survey of journalists entitled "The American Journalist in the 1990s," published by the Freedom Forum. Tendency of journalists to have liberal political views; Comments on the conservativeness of media owners and editorial pages; Accusation of media critics against the press; Discussion of political preference and journalists' ability to perform the function of journalism.

Focuses on the behavior of the U.S. news media during presidential inauguration activities. Factors that motivate the press; Examples of headlines that can be found in leading newspapers after the inauguration; Significance of inauguration activities to mass media.

Comments on how the press would sensationalize and fictionalize news stories in the U.S. by offering insufficient facts and data to support their news. News stories that were exaggerated on newspapers; Highly publicized anti-homosexual political campaign mounted by a right-wing fundamentalist group; Prevalence of lies and deceit in newspapers; Criticisms against journalists; Issue of journalistic ethics.

Presents information on the press coverage of events occurring in the state of Iowa. Release of a press kit by the Iowa Development Commission and the Office of the Governor containing story lines of interest to the people of the state; Consideration for the growth of the state economy and its relative prosperity compared to other states; Resolution on the Midwest farm crisis.

Presents information regarding the political developments taking place around the world. Anti-American campaign launched by Paris, France, through press; Opening up of anti-Communist propaganda in Germany by the U.S.; Debate on the topic whether teachers should beat recalcitrant pupils.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing articles and topics published in previous issues. Comments on the discipline of the U.S. Marine corps; "The Press in "56" in the September 24 issue; View that criticism of the press or of any other important portion of the operation of the American system is helpful; Claim that it is only through debate that an intelligent public opinion is developed.

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.

Comments on the notices in the press referring to writer F. Scott Fitzgerald's untimely death. Critics who review works of literature; View that permanent standards are essential for criticism of a literature; Factors that marks a piece of good work; Information on the book "The Great Gatsby," by Fitzgerald.

Appreciates the journal "The Saturday Evening Post," for its style of presentation of news. Comparison of "The Saturday Evening Post," with other periodicals; Efforts made by every weekly journal to keep up with current affairs information; Information on the stories related to Standard Oil published in the journal; Discussion of anti-New Deal in the journal.

Focuses on news related to world politics, which were published in foreign newspapers. Great Britain-based "Daily Herald" report about the damage done to the reputation of the United States as a democracy by the antics of the congressional Committee on Un-American Activities; "L'Uomo" articles about the revival of nationalism in Italy; Sweden's "Filmjournalen" piece on the issue of freedom in the U.S.

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.