PRESENTATION OF NEWS
FREEDOM FROM NATIONAL RESTRICTIONS franco-!american submission Rec. 7 p.m. GENEVA, Mar. 27. France and the United States submitted to the International Freedom of Information conference drafts of international conventions to free news from national restrictions and prevent discrimination against foreign correspondents. The conference committees will study the drafts. France also proposed the establishment of a world council of journalists which would issue an international journalists’ card. Eastern European delegates in the committees opened a concerted offensive against the American press. Soviet, Polish, Hungarian, and Rumanian speakers declared it mockery to speak of a free press in the United States where trusts controlled more than half the press and where 92 per cent, of the areas outside big towns had only one local paper. The Communist system, they said, guaranteed real freedom. . , . Mr Harry Martin (United States) said 83 per cent, of the 1700 newspapers in the United States were independent, and only one in five was attached to a chain. In the Soviet one party controlled one chain from Pravda down to- the smallest village news sheet.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26731, 29 March 1948, Page 5
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