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Mr. Agnew's Oversights
Barnett, Stephen R. | January 26, 1970 issue

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Vice President of U.S., Spiro Agnew is a welcome recruit to the undermanned ranks of press critics. For one thing, he brings to the task a much needed ability to command public attention. Agnew also provoked revealing responses from his two specified targets, "The Washington Post" and "The New York Times." It would be unfortunate if the dialogue ended there; the subject of newspaper performance and newspaper monopoly is too important to be returned to its dark closet, or to be subsumed in the related but different issues involving television. Newspapers don't need government licenses; they do need all the public criticism they can get.

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AGNEW, Spiro Theodore; VICE-Presidents -- United States; MONOPOLIES in the press; MASS media; ANTITRUST law; WASHINGTON Post (Newspaper); NEW York Times, The (Newspaper); UNITED States
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