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The Secret Dinners of Cold War Journalism
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Last October, Pete Hegseth, known as the secretary of war, attempted to ban all reporters credentialed to the Pentagon who would not sign a pledge to write exactly what the Trump administration wanted. Around forty reporters walked out in protest rather than sign; their access to the building is now the subject of a prolonged legal dispute. Across the administration, we’ve seen officials blatantly play favorites in giving access to sources and information.
Before Trump, before Agnew, Hate Mail Reveals Long-Simmering Hostility to Journalists Original
You don’t have to go to a Donald Trump rally to understand how much public abuse reporters receive, both online and in real life. Hostility toward the press is certainly more visible in the U.S. today than ever, with polls showing declining trust in newspapers, TV and radio. But a pernicious hatred toward those who bring us the news has deep roots, largely hidden in the personal archives of reporters.
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“City of Newsmen” By Kathryn McGarr University of Chicago Press 304 Pages It is axiomatic that democracy cannot survive without a free press. Kathryn McGarr’s “City of Newsmen” drives this point home with a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between our government and the press through the critical period of World War II and the Cold War.
The Roundup Top Ten for March 10, 2023
; 3/10/2023 Roundup At its 150th Anniversary, the Comstock Law is Relevant Again by Jonathan Friedman and Amy Werbel Anthony Comstock drew on elite connections to give himself near unilateral power to confiscate "obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, or immoral" materials —terms he was free to define on his own—and prosecute people for possessing them. Right-wing politicians seem to be inspired by the example.
Fox's Handling of the "Big Lie" was Cowardly, but Not Unusual
SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post 3/7/2023 Roundup tags: Fox News, media, journalism, Donald Trump, 2020 Election by Kathryn J. McGarr Kathryn J. McGarr is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the author of City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington.
Kathryn McGarr - City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington - with Manu Raju - at Conn Ave
Click here for current mask requirements. This event is free with first come, first served seating. City of Newsmen explores foreign policy journalism in Washington during and after World War II—a time supposedly defined by the press’s blind patriotism and groupthink. McGarr reveals, though, that DC reporters then were deeply cynical about government sources and their motives, but kept their doubts to themselves for professional, social, and ideological reasons.
City of Newsmen
Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington An inside look at how midcentury DC journalists silenced their own skepticism and shaped public perceptions of the Cold War. Americans’ current trust in journalists is at a dismayingly low ebb, particularly on the subject of national and international politics.
Modern American History
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Author Q & A: Andie Tucher, Not Exactly Lying
Not Exactly Lying: Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History (Columbia University Press, 2022) Describe the focus of your book. Fake news has been a feature of American journalism since Publick Occurrences hit the streets of Boston in 1690. Paradoxically, however, the enduring battles to defeat fake news have helped give rise to a phenomenon even more hazardous to truth and democracy.
AEJMC History Division Announces Book Award Winners Kathy Roberts Forde and Sid Bedingfield
The History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) has selected Kathy Roberts Forde and Sid Bedingfield as winners of its award honoring the best journalism and mass communication history book published in 2021. Roberts Forde and Bedingfield are co-editors of Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America (University of Illinois Press). The committee also is recognizing a runner-up for this year’s Book Award.
Book review of Assignment Russia: Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War by Marvin Kalb
In 1957, when Marvin Kalb joined CBS Radio in New York to write local news, television was called “electronic journalism,” and the backdrop for the “CBS Morning News” was a cardboard sign hanging above a desk on the fifth floor of the Grand Central Terminal building. The United States had yet to recognize what it referred to as “Red China” diplomatically, and Edward R. Murrow still worked for CBS.
C St.: where scandal meets spirituality
Lawmakers flock to 133 C St. SE for cheap rent, weekly dinners, Bible studies and spirituality sessions that serve as a sort of group therapy for some of the country’s most powerful men. But now the stately brick house is becoming known for something else: It’s ground zero for Republican sex scandals. In February, Nevada Sen. John Ensign — who lives at the house — was confronted at C Street by colleagues who wanted him to end his affair with a staffer. Earlier this month, South Carolina Gov.
Modern American History
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Analysis | No one should be surprised by journalism’s sexual harassment problem
NBC’s Matt Lauer is one of several in the media who have fallen in the past month. Political journalism has long favored men over women, one of the root causes of the sexual harassment crisis roiling the industry. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Remember when it was just Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly? Over the past month, the news media has been central to the country’s weekly installments of Men Behaving Badly.
No one should be surprised by journalism’s sexual harassment problem | History News Network
Kathryn J. McGarr, a historian and assistant professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin, is author of "The Whole Damn Deal: Robert Strauss and the Art of Politics." Remember when it was just Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly? Over the past month, the news media has been central to the country’s weekly installments of Men Behaving Badly.
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