Abstract
Autumn issues of American periodicals touched the problems of journalism at several points. The professional magazines were not alone in reciting the story of the revival of the French press after liberation from the Nazi yoke. The policy of licensing newspapers and exerting censorship over them raised doubts of the postwar freedom of the press in liberated countries. Non-professional journals, as well as the trade press, stressed these developments.
The strong numerical and editorial support given to the presidential candidacy of Thomas E. Dewey by daily newspapers and Northern weeklies created a debate on the “prestige position” of the press in the 1944 campaign. Editor & Publisher denied that the press has lost influence. A few of the quality group magazines took up the cudgels in an attempt to prove the contrary.
Much attention was given to proposals for an international agreement that would keep the worldwide news channels free and give American reporters abroad easy access to news sources.
Radio spokesmen in their trade journals claimed credit for improvement in the coverage of war news in the various combat theatres. F. E. M.
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