Abstract

Issues and Men

The newspapers with the largest circulation are the tabloids, whose readers buy them not for any editorial comment but to get the news through pictures. The lack of influence of the American press as a whole which this election has brought out is not novel; it has long been apparent and has a number of causes; but the author is afraid that J. M. Patterson, the owner of the "Daily News," is about correct in saying that most of the newspapers opposed U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt with much strength and sincerity because Roosevelt's reelection would be a bad thing for their pockets. There were many honorable exceptions, of course, like the Baltimore Suns and some of the Gannett newspapers, which were not influenced by business-office considerations.