LEFT-LEARNING REPORTERS WIN ALL THE BIG PRIZES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000401170002-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2014
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 2, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT MOST of ..t.ta:...,.-- ?,----,-..--,-__ ---
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American newspapers have been trying for some time . :.
to get reporters in Vietnam but without success. Ho I. -
permitte;1 only Salisbury, the Times man, to come inL..'.?
and see the "wanton destruction" of villages by Ameri-1 .
can bombers. Funny, eh? Darn right, it is.
So that's the "new dimension" in news coverage. '..
Thanks, but no thanks, ?we'll pass. ? ?
Ramparts Magazine, a sleezy thing edited by a ,
bunch of egg-headed kids in long pants, also was named ;
ts mag-
azine as a winner of the Polk Award. In the words of the,
Times story, "Rampar . '.' : was chosen for the
reporting award for its explosive revival of the ..,
great ?muckracking tradition:" The magazine, you will!,
recall, recently printed a. story revealing that the;,
Central Intelligence Agency. had financed European?. ?
publisher of
the New York Post; Arnold Gingrich, pu .i.
study by- some,--members? of the Natio:epartment ,Studentslq;-
Association,
Among the, other' winners were Murray Kempton
of
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..Esquire Magazine; and to the "Time Essay" d r.
of Time Magazine..,,'.. ?
Recognize any -conservatives among them?. ? ? ? I:. .
major news media, including the radio and tv ret-
works, lean to the left of center in their political think-
, ing. There are exceptions, Of course, Freedom News- .
.-? papers, the Chicago Tribune and a few 'others arong
them. . 1
. But what everybody doesn't know is that ey.ecu-'
Lives of the major media and liberal schoolmen usuiqy! ,
,
.1 have a deciding hand in Selecting winners of thc., bigl
,...1 prizes in journalism and related fields. The Pulitzerj
''..' Prize, for instance. In most cases, the judges 'are hand!
? :1 picked by' means. usually spelled 'out in documents'll'
7 setting up the awards and everything is on the sc.tn-ire
in that department. , ? , ..
lind2r these circumstances,?it seems safe to assume.,
that. these leftish judges would single out the writing:1%1
or reporting of a fellow liberal for an award and that's.
exactly what usually happens. It's a sort of closed-shop HI
..i.
It club and few, if any, writers for. conservative.pztpersH
I ever make it. In' other words, you've got .to be in 1 to fi f !,
1 win. , i q
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WINNERS OF THE ANNUAL ? GEORGE Polk fl
Memorial Journalism Awards were announced in New
':ork the other day ,and guess who got .the top priz.e
for foreign .reporting,? Harrison E. Salisbury,. the as-
sis m
tant anaging. editor. Of the New .York Times, who .;-- ? ? ,.: ' . : ' ?? .. '
recently did a series of iiiiiiiii on the bombing ofi:-
"innocc '....w.pmen and*Children" in North Vietnam by :}
Arneric._ nlanes. Sickening, ain't it? Yet they give him
)? ,
? an award -r it! . . ' ? .. . .. . . i ?
I ? A story _ -.`? out by the New York' Times. News -? ???????
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Service said 'ry was. given'. the award for af ? .
.;.1. "pioneering news mi.... ---1" -to North- Vietnam last .De-
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cember that "contributea A,ew dimension to coverage
of the Vietnam war."
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It was a "new dimension" alright. Probably nothino-6C---? ?
like it has ever been Written before and a lot of people
.1 are convinced that Salisbury was chosen for the assign- ?
1 ment because of the liberal,. peace-loving policy of his
'; paper and th g play the series would get. There also
.1 are those wo n2lieve Salisbury was personally picked
.1 by Ho Chi. to get over the Viet Cong-story in
4, the United States and it very well could be: