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Focuses on the role of the American press and issues related to freedom of information in the United States. Confusion about its role in the political sector; Root of the weakness of the press; Issues related to the publication of Pentagon Papers, a public document in different newspapers in the country; Views of the author on the American tradition of muckraking journalism, which is also called investigative reporting; Discussion on the coverage of foreign affairs by the press.

Explains that the periodicals "The Washington Post," "The New York Times," "The Atlanta Journal/Constitution," and "The New Republic" embargoed for a year the news of Martin Luther King's plagiarism in his doctoral dissertation. Decision to publish in November 1990 only after "The Wall Street Journal" did so; King lifted passages from the doctoral dissertation of fellow Boston University student Jack Boozer.

Discusses the status of the press in Cuba. Supportive role of the newspaper "Avance" during the regime of Cuban Prime Minster Fidel Castro; Popularity of the paper between 1952 and 1958; Freedom and censorship of other paper like "Miami Herald" during the same period.

Focuses on a statement made by the Associated Press that its staff was augmented by staffs of member newspapers and affiliated newspaper services in foreign countries. Description of efforts to break up the European monopoly of the news agency Reuters Ltd. by director of Associated Press (AP) Kent Cooper in his book "Barriers Down"; Acquisition of the right of access to the news gathering facilities of newspapers by AP; Distribution of advertising matters by Press Associations Inc., subsidiary of AP; Meeting of members of AP; View that the statement was intended to block or impede the government prosecution.

The article criticizes that U.S. House of Representatives for approving the bill called Newspaper Preservation Act. It argues that the bill contradicts antitrust laws as well as the Freedom of Information Act. It describes the amount of lobbying that went on for this bill as record-breaking. It identifies the congressmen who supported this bill.

The article focuses on various socio-political developments related to the U.S. U.S. junior-class delegate Stan Feinstein's motion to have LIU award a plaque to the man or woman in the U.S. who has done most to aid academic freedom was voted down after a spirited discussion. In another development, when the intrinsic impact of a great deal of daily war news is no longer available, Roy Roberts, editor of the Kansas City (Mo.) Star, remarked, "The literary quality of newspaper writing must of necessity be higher."

This article focuses on several clips taken from the periodical "The Independent." According to one clipping "Give them something to shout about," said scholar George Seldes. "Give them a bargains That was one way my in fact reached its 176,000 circulation." According to another clipping "the Independent" does not try to sell its readers any point of view except that censorship and suppression are wrong, and are unhealthy in the democracy, where all points of view should be allowed a bearing in the marketplace of public opinion.