Monday, Sep. 18, 1950
More & more news from America is being reprinted in foreign publications these days--some in English; some, after translation, in foreign languages. TIME is no exception.
Our correspondents recently did a roundup on how the foreign press regards TIME and why we are getting so many requests to reprint TIME stories.
For example, in Paris, Le Figaro's foreign editor said; "I read TIME cover to cover. I cannot read all the publications dealing with science and the arts. TIME does this for me . . ." From London, we learned that TIME is practically required reading on the Daily Express. From Bombay, we were told TIME stories appeared frequently in the daily press and TIME clippings were considered an important part of every newspaper morgue. In Western Germany, TIME was read on most of the leading newspapers. A Hamburg editor explained: "The name TIME lends authority to the story."
To our surprise, we are often quoted in newspapers in Argentina and Portuguese territory where we are banned from the newsstands--e.g., the Azores Diario reprinted our Stalin cover story. Less gratifying is a habit, practiced by such papers as the London Daily Worker, of taking one sentence out of context from TIME and using it as a propaganda springboard.
However, when we are quoted, we are mostly quoted accurately with due credit. To give you a partial idea of by whom, see column at left.
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