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(1944) [MARC] Author: Gunnar Myrdal
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1424 An American Dilemma
religious and organizational news. It does not, therefore, attempt to substitute for a
Negro newspaper. Nevertheless, and in spite of ?M^s pronounced pro-Negro attitude,
a New York Negro newspaper was disturbed by the competition and admonished
Negroes to stick to the Negro press. Something like PM is the Chicago Sun^ which is a
newspaper also owned by Marshall Field.
Fleming, of, cit.y p. VII: 1 1. In a footnote on the same page, Fleming draws the
following parallels:
*‘In New York the Hearst Evening Journal (now the Joumal-American) and the
Amsterdam News (Negro) ; in Chicago Hearst’s Herald Examiner and his American
(now merged as the Heraid-American) and the Chicago Defender (Negro) ; in Pitts-
burgh the Hearst’s Sun-Telegrafh and the Pittsburgh Courier (Negro).”
“Gist of numerous interviews with editors and publishers.” Hid., p. Vlll; 3.
See Johns, of. cit., pp. 79 ff.
Fleming, of. cit., p. IV: 36.
22 Ibid., p. IV: 43.
22 E. Franklin Frazier, Negro Youth at the Crossways (1940), p. 289.
2^ Park, of. cit,, p. 1 1 3.
2® See Fleming, of. cit.. Chapter VI.
2® Ralph J. Bunche, “The Political Status of the Negro,” unpublished manuscript
prepared for this study (1940), Vol. 6, p. 1 303. Also see ibid.^ pp. 1251-1252, for
w concrete example of attempted corruption of the Negro press.
2^ White neighborhood businesses might, however, have an interest that a Negro
newspaper should not preach the advantages of Negro business too much. The duty
to favor Negro business is, however, such an important part of the dominant Negro
ideology that no Negro newspaper would dare to come out against it. But it is worth
noticing that many Negro newspapers have kept cool or critical toward local movements
with the slogan “Don’t buy where you can’t work.” For such an attitude there are
perfectly honest reasons (see Chapter 38, Section 6), but an additional reason might
be the advertising from white businesses in Negro neighborhoods, which is usually
much more substantial than the advertising from Negro businesses.
In two cases I have been told by Negro editors that Jewish merchants in Negro
neighborhoods liave made representations as advertisers against an occasional story with
an anti-Semitic tendency. In both cases the editors explained that there was no conflict,
as they, themselves, were against any anti-Semitism among Negroes, and that the stories
had been slips.
2® This v/hole problem of the economy of Negro newspapers and the outside financial
controls deserves study. In general terms the problem is often touched upon in Negro
public discussion. P. B. Young, the editor of the Norfolk Journal and Guide, writes
thus:
“How to advocate our cause without suffering the prohibitions which modern business
places upon agitation is a question which every Negro publisher has to answer in defining
a business policy that will blend with the ideals for which the Negro press must con-
tend,” (“The Negro Press—Today and Tomorrow,” p. 205.)
22 See Fleming, of. cit.. Chapter X.
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The A.N.P, asks for a small weekly fee. It is frequently accused of acting more
as a publicity agent for some institutions and groups than as an impartial news service.
The director “. , . denies that ANP ever ‘sells out’ its news service to any party, although

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