Oppose propaganda, Bricker tells editors
Columbus, Ohio (UP) –
Newspapers must meet the New Deal’s “calculated purpose to discredit the press” with a threefold attack on government propaganda, censorship and centralization of power in the executive branch, Governor John W. Bricker said last night.
In an address hailed by his campaign headquarters as “the strongest” since he announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, Mr. Bricker warned members of the Ohio Newspaper Association of three “dangers” threatening freedom of the press:
First, the use of the press for propaganda “in the nature of a trial balloon for political purposes.”
Second, censorship:
…the road down which the people of Germany, Italy and Japan were led to slavery and ultimate defeat.
Third, concentration of power in the executive branch of the government, making “the danger to a free press more and more imminent.”