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“In Review” in Review

“The News of the Week in Review” of the Sunday New York Times regularly includes: a) a relaxed but unabashedly tendentious summary of recent international and domestic developments; b) a selection of the best recent cartoons from out over the nation and from abroad (meaning by “best” both “best” and “most likely to forward the Times’ editorial policies”; c) a series of long, slowpaced, full-of-slant-and-background stories from the big names on the Times’ reporting staff; and d) an editorial page that differs from the editorial page through the week in four respects. First, the Times’ future editor, James Reston, takes over column five from Arthur Krock, who on Sundays moves his eloquent pleas for the continuance of the American political tradition and for reaction-in-general over to page three. Second, the editorials themselves lay off the pace of the day’s news, and seek to probe whatever “deep issues” of the moment the Times’ editorial board is capable of recognizing. Third, the “Letters to the Times” section always looks as if things might have been saved up for it. Fourth, it is the one document that appears each week that no student of the Liberal Propaganda Machine dares miss, because it is the hemppile at which the cordage of the Liberal Line originates.

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“In Review” in Review

“The News of the Week in Review” of the Sunday New York Times regularly includes: a) a relaxed but unabashedly tendentious summary of recent international and domestic developments; b) a selection of the best recent cartoons from out over the nation and from abroad (meaning by “best” both “best” and “most likely to forward the Times’ editorial policies”; c) a series of long, slowpaced, full-of-slant-and-background stories from the big names on the Times’ reporting staff; and d) an editorial page that differs from the editorial page through the week in four respects. First, the Times’ future editor, James Reston, takes over column five from Arthur Krock, who on Sundays moves his eloquent pleas for the continuance of the American political tradition and for reaction-in-general over to page three. Second, the editorials themselves lay off the pace of the day’s news, and seek to probe whatever “deep issues” of the moment the Times’ editorial board is capable of recognizing. Third, the “Letters to the Times” section always looks as if things might have been saved up for it. Fourth, it is the one document that appears each week that no student of the Liberal Propaganda Machine dares miss, because it is the hemppile at which the cordage of the Liberal Line originates.