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George Seldes’ War for the Public GoodForeign Correspondent

George Seldes’ War for the Public Good: Foreign Correspondent [This chapter examines Seldes’ years as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune where he saw how publishers’ personal biases and commercial interests shaped international news and domestic public opinion during America’s early globalization. Seldes reported on the famine in Russia, the bombardment of Damascus and the Vienna Uprisings, and he increasingly saw how news was distorted. It was after he had reported on the violence in Mussolini’s Italy that he began to seriously critique journalism practices and advocate for a factual but more interpretative approach to foreign reporting to help explain events to American citizens who had up until this time adopted a largely isolationist position, which made them vulnerable to the growing political instability in Europe.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

George Seldes’ War for the Public GoodForeign Correspondent

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
ISBN
978-3-030-30876-6
Pages
21 –34
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-30877-3_3
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Abstract

[This chapter examines Seldes’ years as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune where he saw how publishers’ personal biases and commercial interests shaped international news and domestic public opinion during America’s early globalization. Seldes reported on the famine in Russia, the bombardment of Damascus and the Vienna Uprisings, and he increasingly saw how news was distorted. It was after he had reported on the violence in Mussolini’s Italy that he began to seriously critique journalism practices and advocate for a factual but more interpretative approach to foreign reporting to help explain events to American citizens who had up until this time adopted a largely isolationist position, which made them vulnerable to the growing political instability in Europe.]

Published: Nov 15, 2019

Keywords: Foreign correspondent; Colonel Robert McCormick; Italian fascism; Russian Revolution

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