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The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington's Scandal Culture is also good
oh also:
The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst
Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt and the Golden Age of Journalism
im kind of obsessed w hearst and its kind of amusing when people today lament the "good old days" of journalism when hearst and pulitzer, while enabling groundbreaking journalism, were also pre-internet clickbait masters
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The arguments against Medicare for all and college for everyone always seems to be some variation on "I struggled so everyone after me has to struggle so nah." Which... sounds like absolute bullshit?
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I.. I don’t understand why we’re just letting the narrative that he blew himself up take hold. Seems like exactly the story Baghdadi would want.
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