Volume 16, Number 6 · April 8, 1971

The Right People and the Wrong Times

By Murray Kempton
Don't Blame the People
by Robert Cirino

Diversity Press (Box 45764, Los Angeles, California 90045), 341 pp., $2.95

The Information Machines
by Ben H. Bagdikian

Harper & Row, 359 pp., $8.95

The Image Empire
by Eric Barnouw

Oxford, 396 pp., $9.75

My Life and The Times
by Turner Catledge

Harper & Row, 319 pp., $10.00

The Last of the Giants
by C.L. Sulzberger

Macmillan, 1,063 pp., $12.50

'In Paris,' he remembered, 'Tribune had a prestige which was somewhat astonishing…. It was impossible to buy it…. Yet all the French journalists I met seemed to have heard of it and to know that it was the one paper in England which had neither supported the government uncritically, nor opposed the war, nor swallowed the Russian myth.'



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