NEWS TREATMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 29, 3 August 1944, Page 6

NEWS TREATMENT

ALLIED COUNTRIES

NEW YORK, August 2.

A tendency of newspapers to overplay their own country's party in the war is condemned by General Eisenhower's headquarters. A high-ranking spokesman said: "This tendency is noticeable in both the British and American Press. It is just giving aid and comfort to the enemy. General Montgomery is conducting his campaign in complete accordance with General Eisenhower."

A tendency to contrast the American break-through with the recent British stalemate round Caen was so proounced in American newspapers that some even suggested that General Montgomery would have to go. The American operations have been described as those of Lieut-General Bradley, and the fact that General Montgomery is the field commander in the entire Normandy campaign has been completely ignored.

In a recent issue of the journal "Editor and Publisher" the managing editor of the Chicago "Tribune," Mr. J. L. Maldney, who is at present in London, complained that the British Press underplayed the American part in the war. The reader, he said, was specifically told when British troops were in action: when it was the Americans they were referred to as Allied irodps.

Mi , . Moloney may have a legitimate grievance, but unfortunately the American Press has'a similar trick of describing operations in which Americans do not participate as Allied while operations in which non-American forces have a subsidiary part are called American.