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Show PRESS AND BIG MONEY ARE FOR DEWEY? A NEWSPAPER PICTURE By Ezra J. Poulsen All the big money and 617 newspapers in the United States are supporting Governor Dewey; 220 papers and the small contributors are supporting President Roosevelt, according ac-cording to report. Most of those supporting the president are in the South. On the other hand, as many as ten states, with a total population of many millions, do not have a single daily newspaper upholding the president, or the principles prin-ciples advocated by the party of Thomas Jefferson. Nor is this true merely of the election year, 1944. It is a situation relatively true always because the press is owned by a very small group with very set nations, and purposes (Continued on Page Four) KNOW YE THE TRUTH! (continued from page one) Press and Big Money for Dewey ; often running counter to the will of the majority of the ! people. Unfortunately, Utah is one of those states without a daily newspaper properly, and adequately upholding the ; principles and the achievements of the democratic party, ji The result is, one set of candidates is always laboring under a handicap. True, they are not denied news space; but ; both their words and their deeds are constantly interpreted , by unfriendly editorialists to suit their own purposes. ; Many thousands of people read these comment without ever having an opportunity to read the other side. Is it not obvious that there are -enough democrats j in this region to support a daily as large as any now in ! existence, even considerably larger? Here is a real chal- lenge for some enterprising group of liberals. Certainly, i! there must be enough leadership to make such a project i; succeed, even if it costs millions. But it may not cost mil- ji lions. The ownership of some journal now in existence ;! might be made to see the advantage of pursuing such a j! policy.. !! |
