Show newspapers PRAISED FOR WAR NEWS HANDLING praising american newspapers for their handling of news in wartime W G chandler president of the amerle american newspaper lishers association points out that they have at the same time maintained the causes of bf a free press and of a nation at war through a delicate balance of jouin alisa wisdom and good faith ours is the only allied nation which has maintained censorship or of the press on a voluntary basis he says governed by a simple code which the press helped to write our newspapers have given their readers essential war information without revealing anything of importance to the enemy and in the national election the press reported the campaigns in such a way that the enemy could nourish no real hope of division among us on the essential issues of the war in war or peace the newspaper is the most powerful single institution in american life he says its allegiance is not to the government but to the people whom government is designed to serve |