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Those ‘warmongering’ papers of William Randolph Hearst
The first major engagement of the Spanish-American War took place 114 years ago today — in the Philippines, where U.S. warships attacked and destroyed a Spanish naval squadron in Manila Bay. War… more →
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Those 'warmongering' papers of William Randolph Hearst
wrote 1 month ago: The first major engagement of the Spanish-American War took place 114 years ago today — in the … more →
James Fallows and 'furnish the war': Indulging in a media myth
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wrote 3 months ago: Young Hearst In deploring “carefree talk” about pre-emptively bombing Iran’s nucle … more →
Sketches published 115 years ago undercut a tenacious media myth
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wrote 4 months ago: On assignment for Hearst The artist Frederic Remington was back from Havana just a few days when on … more →
Apocryphal, but still quotable
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wrote 5 months ago: Apocryphal, but still quotable. That’s the takeaway from a commentary posted yesterday at the … more →
A thumbsucker commentary and the Zhou misinterpretation
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wrote 6 months ago: A thumbsucker is what some American journalists call a self-indulgent article or commentary that ten … more →
Accepting the Dicken-Garcia Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Journalism History
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wrote 6 months ago: I was honored yesterday to receive the Hazel Dicken-Garcia Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Jo … more →
Where do they get this stuff?
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wrote 8 months ago: William Randolph Hearst almost surely never vowed to “furnish the war” with Spain, and h … more →
'Kane' at 70: 'More relevant than ever'?
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wrote 8 months ago: In the year of its 70th anniversary, Orson Welles’ cinematic masterpiece Citizen Kane “i … more →
That's not what Zhou meant
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wrote 9 months ago: Nixon and Zhou, 1972 In 1972, Chinese premier Zhou Enlai told President Richard M. Nixon that it was … more →
60 years after his death, media myth towers around Hearst
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wrote 9 months ago: The BBC over the weekend marked the 60th anniversary of the death of William Randolph Hearst by post … more →
Media myth infiltrates NYTimes 'Learning Network'
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wrote 9 months ago: The New York Times’ “Learning Network” blog declares says it provides “teac … more →
India high court order invokes phony Watergate line
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wrote 10 months ago: Two Supreme Court judges in India last month turned to Watergate’s most famous made-up line in … more →
More media myths from CounterPunch
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wrote 10 months ago: CounterPunch touts itself as “America’s best political newsletter.” It’s bui … more →
Tarring Murdoch with Hearst's evil 'vow' to 'furnish the war'
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wrote 10 months ago: Rupert Murdoch’s much-anticipated hearing yesterday before a Parliament committee was hardly v … more →
BBC calls Hearst vow apocryphal, quotes it anyway
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wrote 10 months ago: Apocryphal but still quotable. That’s how Britain’s venerable broadcaster, the BBC, trea … more →
Those delicious but phony quotes 'that refuse to die'
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wrote 11 months ago: Craig Silverman, author of Regret the Error, posted an intriguing column yesterday about appealing b … more →
Why history is badly taught, poorly learned
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wrote 11 months ago: I’m not much a fan of the work of David McCullough, the award-winning popular historian whose … more →
That was quick: Crummy Cleveland mob pic now out on DVD
wrote 11 months ago: It was just three months ago when a low-budget yet widely reviewed movie about Cleveland’s 197 … more →
'Too early to say': Zhou was speaking about 1968, not 1789
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wrote 11 months ago: Nixon and Zhou, 1972 When Chinese premier Zhou Enlai famously said it was “too early” to … more →
