referred to Taft by sounding out his initials and calling him a "Rat." Guylay claimed

that Cronkite's statements were typical, saying "The problem with CBS is general

omission of news developments in the Taft campaign, playing down of these

developments when they are carried, and a very apparent effort to promote the

Eisenhower campaign. This is evident from news coverage and from special current

events shows as well as from the straining by CBS top stars to aid the Eisenhower

cause."35 Print media outlets also were subject to conservative scrutiny for allegedly

biased coverage. The Freeman reported that the New York Times had committed

several instances of what it termed "Alice in Wonderland headlining." On May 21, for

example, the Times titled its story on the District of Columbia primary as "Taft Loses

to Eisenhower in Capital 'Home' District," highlighting that the Senator's

neighborhood delegate was pledged to Eisenhower even though Taft won thirty-three

DC delegates to Eisenhower's four.36

 Since its inception in 1951, The Freeman had claimed that a majority of the

press would be against Taft and the conservatives. In September of that year, it

predicted that columnists that it termed "liberal" and "internationalist" would parrot

the Dewey line and back Eisenhower. It listed writers such as Joseph and Stewart

Alsop, Walter Lippmann, Marquis Childs, and Drew Pearson as prime candidates to

propagate what the magazine termed Dewey-inspired rhetoric.37 As the Republican

convention drew closer, The Freeman's forecast proved prescient. The Alsops,

writing shortly after Eisenhower's return to the United States, claimed that the

General was "is the most effective political personality to emerge on the American

35 Richard L. Guylay, Memo to Robert A. Taft, undated. Copy in Folder (1952 Campaign Miscellany
- Richard L. Guylay), Box 453, Taft Papers.
36 "All the News that Fits," The Freeman 2, no. 19, 600.

3 The Freeman 1, no. 26, 24 September 1951, 809-813.