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Show NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WEEK By Charles A. Fell. Manning Editor, The Birmingham News This is NATIONAL NEWSPAPER NEWS-PAPER WEEK, set apart each year by America's free democratic demo-cratic journalism as a period of self-examination and re-dedication. If you ask: "So, what?" well, for one thing it's your week, I quite as much as the newspaper's. It's dedicated in 1952 to YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW. I One of its chief purposes is to inspire better journalism so that YOU may be better served by your newspaper. ' Another is to remind every American of the importance of guarding th freedom of information infor-mation guaranteed to our people by Article I of the Bill of Rights. The individual reader and 'his newspaper have an inseparable common interest in that consti-I consti-I tutional guarantee: Our people must be free. ' To remain free, they must be informed. To 'be adequately informed, they must have unshackled sources of information. And, so, National Newspaper Week is a period belonging equally to YOU and YOUR NEWSPAPER. |