Monday, Oct. 23, 1944
Washington Winners
To find out what the Washington press thinks of itself, the Saturday Review of Literature sent questionnaires to the 696 members of the Congressional Press Gallery, got printable replies from 160. Last week the Saturday Review presented its list of winners:
P: The correspondent doing the best all-around job, "measured in terms of reliability, fairness, ability to analyze the news": Scripps-Howard's scholarly, Pulitzer-Prizeman Thomas L. Stokes, with 25 votes.* Crowding Stokes, with 23 votes: United Feature's New-Dealish Marquis Childs.
P: The correspondent exerting the greatest influence on the nation: United Feature's suave, social, scoopy Columnist Drew Pearson, by a walkaway 56 votes.
P: The correspondent exerting the greatest influence on Washington: dignified, omniscient Arthur Krock, chief of the New York Times's Washington bureau (51 votes). Second: Drew Pearson (32).
P: Champion of all the dailies, "the newspaper maintaining the best all-around Washington news service as measured by reliability, comprehensiveness, fairness": the New York Times.
P: Easily outstanding as the "newspaper . . . most flagrant in angling or weighting the news to suit its own editorial opinions": Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Roosevelt-hating Chicago Tribune.
*United Feature Syndicate promptly announced that it would syndicate the Stokes articles nationally; they have previously appeared only in the 19 Scripps-Howard papers.
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