HOW SOVIET JOURNALISTS RATE U.S. NEWSPAPERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100220017-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2006
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: September 23, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

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The Washington Post
MOSCOW (UPI)--So far guishecl to the Russians,
? is formall regarded as
y orts
as the Ftuss;ans are con- according to Zhurnalist s independent. It supp
corned, the St. Louis Post brief ~ESOUnt ab~~ut the ,the liberal wing of big
Dispatch and the pes U.S. p ,
DIoines 1~, e g i s t e r are ..-The IvTew York Times .'bourThe5Baltimore Su.n is
~l r~merica's two top quality "is an influential paper
~ ~~ elosel tied with big cape- *closely tied with financial
netivspapers? y ~ ~ circles.. ~ . .
;. 1 he Post Dispatch was talist monopolies." "
described by Zhurnalist, ; ' =-The Los A'n g e 1 e s , ~'~ ---The Washington,
+ti,~ ,,,nnthly magazine of Times "holds conservative `~ Evencng Stabri~r i~austrial:
- --.-.. ?? --The New Yorx uy. a.. _..__- ?
t t7nion as an in open- , ..
_,...,~~~'.~ ~ ; ~ v newspaper, ~N r?w s ~ is "a boulevard''%;,,y Tlze'W~ashington a~ Y
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cites certain aspects of the :~ ~~:'~,yii;-;~~~,time~~ts_,.S2r,.,?ti4~ > ,:jy ~""."".
(17,5.) government's poli- , --The Denver Yost and
~~;~ the Chicago Sun Times
ties." , , ~ . .
Tlxe Des Moines Register' ? . ~ C? were classified as organs of
was described as a~ paper' ~' ` "liberal bourgeoisie:'
~, ~ ..
:with "moderate outlook." ? ? ~;:. Tha .Now York ? .Post
,Ali other leading li.meri- ~, ~ ~ '? ;?practically supports poli-
~cari .;dailies appeared less,E~ ... ~ the Democratic
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!-The Chicago Tribune
y,a,, "a boulevard charac-
't,cr, pursues policiolistic
conservative monop .
circles in the Nliddle'
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,nal is .
y':.ness circles. Reflects right-
~;_ist views."
Cisco
,."the organ o# busi- .
---The -San Fran.
Chronicle "reflects view
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does the.Christian Science-.
':Monitor; -which "though'
r,..,,v,~~~., a religious news:
caper, is. in practice an Nn-;
luent~al ,polit~cal;_ daily,:;~,?~;
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