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Mark Stoneman

5 Tage her

Mark Stoneman
5 Tage her

#EverythingHasAHistory #NewsMedia #Journalism #BothSidesism #1933 #Nazis

Text Shot: From Chicago, John [Gunther]’s editor sent a request for “more diversified” articles: “The whole paper has been loaded with anti-Hitler copy for two weeks.” The time had come, his editor insisted, “to write about something else besides the infringement of personal liberty.” The Daily News was laying itself open to the charge of bias; the news columns shouldn’t be used “for the advocacy of a cause.” . . .

According to a columnist for the Montclair Times, [H. R.] Knickerbocker had gotten himself “quite excited” about Jews and failed to depict the German perspective. His reports were “hearsay,” they were exaggerated, they could scarcely be believed. “There must be two sides to the question."

– Deborah Cohen, Last Call at the Hotel Imperial, chap. 7.

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Mark Stoneman

1 Woche her

Mark Stoneman
1 Woche her

#EverythingHasAHistory #journalism #quotes

Text Shot: The fact that Trotsky, Mussolini—and Goebbels, too—had all started as journalists created its own sort of dynamic with the correspondents. The politicians liked turning the tables, deploying the reporter’s bag of tricks to their own advantage: turning on the charm, trading information without giving too much away, polishing the quotations attributed to them. For their part, the reporters put themselves, at least imaginatively, in the politicians’ shoes. I want power . . .

Deborah Cohen, Last Call at the Hotel Imperial, chap. 7

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