Lyons Criticizes '52 Press Record

America does have a one-party press, Nioman Curator Louis M. Lyons (above) told an audience of nearly 100 at the Law School Coffee Hour yesterday in Harkness Commons.

Lyens criticized the "myth" that newspapers were under pressure from their advertisers, adding that the cause of the trouble was the big business status of the newspaper industry. With political and economic questions so closely linked, he added that it was inevitable that much of the press should reflect business points of view.

Viewing the presidential campaign as a paper's great test, Lyons said, "It's easier to be impartial in September than in October, when you begin to think your man may not win."

Last fall Easternors within the area served by papers like the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor, he said, did not realize the "horrors" of unfair coverage committed in other parts of the country.