LEFT-LEARNING REPORTERS WIN ALL THE BIG PRIZES

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December 27, 2016
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January 6, 2014
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March 2, 1967
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fAT )eclassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved AL.LEY ,1 STAR 'I - 17,013 S - 14,312 ? 1 r .1 ? L \--311 g I - 1 1 i ? 1 4 1 Y ill in 1 for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/01/06 : CIA-RDP73-00475R000401170002-3 t eanglilc t? ,t? ? . ?, (.7rN c' c. ;( .?:! h .,?-''' ? ? . TIT) 0 t' l(151 4:1 if 477 4c;:n CZ-4, . ? ' EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT MOST of ..t.ta:...,.-- ?,----,-..--,-__ --- O-R-1.2-1- EialelE.16-1----nd s-c7------)res of - 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 . il..,1 (i '? ..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 :., 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 -? ??????? ? ? % Service said 'ry was. given'. the award for af ? . .;.1. "pioneering news mi.... ---1" -to North- Vietnam last .De- ? cember that "contributea A,ew dimension to coverage of the Vietnam war." ? . 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: