HOW SOVIET JOURNALISTS RATE U.S. NEWSPAPERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300320013-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2006
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: September 23, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

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" ? extreme right circles."
how 'Sovt~~has "a boulevard charac-
ter, pursues policies of
- conservative monopolistic
R . . Nvspps ci'rcles'in'the Middle'
t{- t It
2 3 SEP 1965'
MOSCOW (UPI)--So far
as the Russians are con-
cerned, the St. Louis Post
Dispatch and the Des
Moines Register are
1America's two top quality
newspapers.
The Post Dispatch was
described by Zhurnalist,
tkie monthly magazine of
I h e Soviet Journalists
Union, as an "indepen-
dent" daily newspaper,
All other leading Amen ?p ports poll-
can . dailies appeared less ractically supl
Democratic
tindependent;? and ,.distlfl !ties of the
r
with "moderate outlook" -The New York .Post'
es .
guished to the Russians, -The Washington Post
.according to Zhurnalist's 'is "formally regarded as
brief account about the independent. It supports
U.S. press: ,the liberal wing of big
-The New York Times 'bourgeoisie.'"is an influential paper -The Baltimore Sun is
closely tied with big capi- "closely tied with financial
talist monopolies." ; circles."?
--The Los Angeles. -The Washington.
'Times "holds conservative " Evening Star "reflects the.
positions." views of big industrial:
-The New York Daily and financial circles."-
s is on boulevard The'Washington Daily
N
e w
k which "sometimes criti- newspaper which expres-` News "supports reactiona
. tires certain aspects of the aea h ~ t{ efts: Qf .. to ry circles."
(U.S.) governments poli- -The Denver Yost and '
ties." the Chicago Sun Times',
T1he Des Moines Registewere classified as organs of
was described as a paper "1'b
al bourgeoisie"
-The Wall Street Jour-'
i
b
-
us
nal 1sOthe organ of
ness ircies. Reflects right-
ist views."
-The San Francisco
of.big?laourbcoisie': a .d..so
does the Christian Science -
'Monitor; which "though',
formally a religious news
L paper, is in practice an in.'
uential political.dailYtiv
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