HOW SOVIET JOURNALISTS RATE U.S. NEWSPAPERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300400059-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2006
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: September 23, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

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? extreme right circles."
~~?`-The Chicago Tribune
id Sovt I e ioue~ n"a t ` has "a boulevard charac~
Nwsppe's onservative e ? ? , c i'r c l e's' iti the Middle `
rac
~ cart. dailies appeared less,' p
incdependent,,, a~?d;.diet ties o? the Democratic
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MOSCOW (U
as the Russians are con- according to Zhurnalist's is "formally regarded as
cerned, the St. Louis Post brief account about the independent. It supports
Dispatch and the Des U.S. press: the liberal ~~ wing of big
Moines Register are -The New York Times 'bourgeoisie.
America's two top quality "is an influential paper -The Baltimore Sun is
newspapers. closely tied with big cape-' "closely tied with financial,
.. The Post Dispatch was talist monopolies." circles."- ? . .
described by Zhurnalist, -The Los Angeles, -The Washington,
t'e monthly magazine of Tiles "holds conservative '` Evening Star "reflects the,
h e Soviet Journalists positions." views of big industrial
Union, as an "indepen-. ? -The New York Daily and financial circles.".
,dent" d a i l y newspaper, N e w s' is "a boulevard'` , _The'Washington Daily`
Y: which "sometimes criti- newspaper which expres- News ".supports reactiona
cites certain aspects of theeS,;~~timets:.pf..-tbq. ry circles."
(U.S.) governments poli -The Denver Yost and
~' ties." .: `'. the Chicago Sun Times
were classified as organs of
The Des Moines Register
s was described as a? paper t~ "liberal bourgeoisie."
with "moderate outlook." Th Now York. Post"
All other leading Amer!-
tically supports poli- '
West."
far guished to the Russians, -The Washington Post
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nal is,"the organ o bus'-
t:rness eircies. Reflects right-
,,,'1st views."
-The San Francisco
V; Chronicle "reflects views
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does the Christian'Science.
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:';Monitor; whit i ews
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formally a re
aper, is. in practice an in"
~fluentialloiitical:daily.";,;
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