Abstract
Compiled by the Institute for Press Science at the University of Amsterdam
The European press gave a great deal of attention to the start of commercial television in England during this period. The BBC and the British press watched with especial interest to see whether the ITA (Independent Television Authority) would eat into their advertising revenue. In France Pierre Mendés-France's weekly, l'Exprès, has been turned into a daily (l'Exprès-Matin) under the editorship of 31-year-old Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and two of his political friends suddenly dismissed their action against Der Spiegel, the German equivalent of Life magazine. The libel suit had been dragging on for two years, and had been brought because Der Spiegel had accused the Chancellor and his friends of selling important German documents to the French. Colombia's strong man Rojas Pinilla suppressed El Tiempo, possibly the greatest liberal voice of truth south of the border since the suppression of La Prensa.
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