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Freedom of the Press Again
Brind, Ruth | July 24, 1937 issue

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The newspaper publishers of the U.S. have discovered a new threat to freedom of the press. It has nothing to do with the publishing business, with unionization, or with the Newspaper Guild. Radio is the cause of the present agitation. The publishers have discovered a "conspiracy" to prevent them from gaining control of the air. Until recently the official attitude of the publishers emphasized the essential differences between the radio and the press. Back in 1933, when the publishers decreed that news broadcasts must not be sponsored by advertisers and established the Press-Radio Bureau to supply news to radio stations, they also posed as champions of freedom of the press.

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FREEDOM of the press; GOVERNMENT & the press; NEWSPAPER publishing; PUBLISHERS & publishing; GUILDS; RADIO broadcasters; BROADCAST journalism
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