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title: All Set for a Super-Secret Session in Washington
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-all-set-for-a-super-secret-session-1949/
description: Television cameras marked 'TV', a newsreel camera marked 'News Reel', a boom microphone, radio microphones with call letters.
section: Collection
---

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# All Set for a Super-Secret Session in Washington

Television cameras marked 'TV', a newsreel camera marked 'News Reel', a boom microphone, radio microphones with call letters, a typewriter and a 'Press' sign crowd a long committee-room table. Below the picture is the printed caption and the line '1950 Pulitzer Prize Cartoon By Jim Berryman The Washington Star'. The cartoon argues that a session billed as secret would in practice be fully covered by the press; the technique tell is a weak fit with limited-hangout, since the picture concerns what is disclosed under a secrecy label.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Limited hangout](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/limited-hangout/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
TV
TV
NEWS REEL
WAHU
WUWU
WURZ [partly legible]
WHIM
PRESS
All Set For A Super-Secret Session In Washington
1950 Pulitzer Prize Cartoon
By Jim Berryman
The Washington Star
JIM BERRYMAN
```

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