I thought this was interesting:
“O’Donnell later covered the fighting in Europe. Returning home in 1945, he and another reporter had their White House credentials yanked due to “their isolationist, anti-British, anti-Russian pens.” A nasty spat followed, eventually becoming public when it spilled into the Philadelphia Record’s pages. It grew so nasty that Steve Early, the very first White House press secretary, threatened to resign if the men’s credentials weren’t returned. FDR grudgingly complied. “
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Just pointing out, that anti-British, and anti-Russian pens, were apparently a big thing for him.
Having grown up during the cold war myself, that seems an interesting frame of reference for the President. And now we seem to be getting along famously, with the country once again.
Times they do change.
I am incredulous. This sounds like revisionism. As a socialist FDR would have been a media favorite like Obama, not an adversary like Trump.
You forgot the FAKE NEWS alert.
Excellent article. Shows how Roosevelt used the power of government to shape the media toward the Progressive mediacracy it became.
Roosevelt got elected.
Government took over the airwaves and regulated radio in 1934, with the FCC.
The Roosevelt administration used the FCC to bring the media to heel and tamp down dissent.
Broadcast media became more and more Progressive, resulting in the Mediacracy that ruled the country for 50 years, starting in the mid 1960’s.
Maybe. But we have additionally seen an absolutely unprecedented number of Fake News stories (wishes / propaganda / goading / fishing) since Trump was elected. He doesn’t list any examples of Fake News run against FDR here.
Yeah apples, oranges and Marxists. A socialist president and a socialist leaning media with just a bit more capitalist news media. It was these Roosevelt attacked.
Oh and mr Marxist Roosevelt…there is no such American right as the freedom from WANT.
Actually Trump loves using the media as a wedge.
Roosevelt enjoyed an extended honeymoon with the press his first year as president.
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I’m already seeing a big difference between Trump and FDR.
I’m not so sure President Trump hates the media. Absolutely, they are the object of his derision. But, they (inadvertently) contributed a great deal to his being elected President. The media DOES hate him...but they’re so blinded by their hate that they don’t see they’ve actually helped him. .Trump understands the media...they have no clue about him.
President John Adams had the Alien and Sedition Acts to prosecute newspapermen and had at least one conviction.
President Thomas Jefferson let the Alien and Sedition Acts lapse, but he still prosecuted newspapermen anyway.