Historian Kathryn McGarr takes aim at the conventional view of the Cold War Washington press corps as a group of naïve transcriptionists. In this episode, she details the sense of responsibility driving Washington reporters in the '40s and '50s and explains their resulting complicity in passing lies and misinformation to the public. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/
Episode 112: The Revitalization of Cosmopolitan
Episode 111:Girl Stunt Reporters
Episode 110: Diaries of War
Episode 109: Authentic Representation of Native Americans
Episode 108: Prehistory of the Paparazzi
Episode 107: Framing Protest and Describing Disability
Episode 106: Doctors Confront the Turn-of-the-Century Press
Episode 105: Watergate and the Press
Episode 104: The Moon Hoax
Episode 103: Journalists on Film
Episode 102: Defining the Partisan Press Era
Episode 101: The Immigrant Press and First Red Scare
Episode 100: The Telegraph, Libel and Press Freedom
Episode 99: A Tour of the Midcentury Newsroom
Episode 98: Dear Abby, I’m Gay
Episode 97: The Community-Building Bennett Banner
Episode 96: Newspaper Coverage of Women in Politics
Episode 95: The First Presidential Press Secretary
Episode 94: Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
Episode 93: Journalism and Jim Crow
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