36. Magazines and Newspapers,, 1926-1980

Summary: Documents CR's interest in the history, politics, personnel and editorial slants of magazines and newspapers in the United States. Files were used for information on various publication's liberal or leftist politics, to keep track of media personnel, to prove media bias or incompetence, to document the influence of advertisers on publications and labor activities of the Newspaper Guild, and as evidence of the suppression of certain types of information. Includes correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings, lists of magazines, publicity and subscription information, and correspondence with volunteers who clipped articles for CR. Magazine material concerns the Saturday Evening Post, Fortune, Nation, New Republic, Readers Digest, Space & Time (Advertising Publication), Time Magazine, magazines from a consumer standpoint including Newsweek and Business Week and the magazine industry. Newspaper issues concern the New York Times, the Associated Press, Williams R. Hearst and Hearst publications, science news services, newspaper advertising and the American Newspaper Guild. Also material on commercial pressures on the media. Occasional correspondence of F.R. Schlink with editors and others. Subjects tracked by the files include censorship, sex, race, social issues, communism, anti-communism, labor, information suppression and advertising.