Atlanta Daily World

NBC Airs Panel Broadcast On Negro Press In America

A four-way panel discussion on the Negro Press in America was sponsored yesterday by the National Broadcasting Company. The program was heard locally over WSB. Discussing various aspects of the Negro Press, its contribution and future in the United States were Mrs. Doris Fleeson, columnist for a Washington daily paper; Marquis Childs and Percival Prattis, representing Mrs. Jessie L. Vann, publisher.

The fifteen-minute program briefly examined several questions of concern to those interested in the Negro Press. Asked if it could survive in the event of non-segregation and integration, Prattis said that the Negro press would survive. There will always be a demand for the special interpretation and treatment that the metropolitan dailies fail to give, he said.

Mrs. Fleeson agreed with him on this point—however they did disagree on the question of the advisability of the Negro press publicizing the many social injustices in this country for other nationalities to read and use against the United States.

Mrs. Fleeson said that it merely gave America's enemies a weapon by which to discredit America. Mr. Prattis expressed his disagreement but time did not permit an expansion of his views.

Marquis Childs opined that the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association should establish an award similar to the Pulitzer Prize for outstanding journalism.

Mr. Gibson spoke chiefly on the "sensationalism" accusation often leveled against Negro newspapers. Admitting that Negro newspapers were sensationalist at times, he said that they were no more so than any other newspaper catering to a special (Continued on page 4 Column 5)

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The program was scheduled in accordance with the current National Newspaper Week, March 11-17.

The Negro in the press is also featured this week in a national newsmagazine in a story dealing with the southern experiences of a Negro reporter on a northern, "white" daily paper.

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