Show NO SURPRISE 4 What Is Ia a newspaper like in a country where there Is no freedom of the press no advertising no dissent a country where the press is but the sounding board of a dictatorship dictator dictator- ship The answer can be found in the comment comment com com- comment ment of a US U.S. writer Rebecca recently recently recently re re- returned from the Soviet Union who had bad an opp opportunity to visit the headquarters of Pravda official newspaper of the Soviet communist party In an article in the Portland Portland Portland Port Port- land Oregonian she says Is not attractive by our standards It has bas no comic strips advice to the lovelorn household household household house house- hold hints recipes advertising or any of the numerous other features that brighten American American Amer Amer- ican newspapers She was told the primary function of Pravda is to crusade for the principles principles principles prin prin- of communism It Is published in a giant government printing establishment Its profits are turned over to the communist party There can be no free press In Russia since there is no free enterprise to support it The color and diversity of the U US U.S. S. S press press- and its independence are are products of the very things we hear criticized so often often often-ad- ad advertising promotion private enterprise the free market competition profits things which do not exist in Russia And without which there would be no free press That Pravda Is dull should come as no surprise I |