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
- Date
- July 23, 1949
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Washington Evening Star (cartoonist Jim Berryman)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Media and information, Security and surveillance
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Records of the U.S. Senate, Jim Berryman Political Cartoons (NAID 5730852), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Jim Berryman, Washington Evening Star. National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Senate, 5743145 (NAID 5743145).
Text on the object
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
