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...have complained that television, now seeming to intrude so thoroughly in diplomacy, has set itself up as a kind of fourth branch of the U.S. Government. But television governs nothing, forms no diplomatic policies, in fact had a lot less to do with the Sadat visit than William Randolph Hearst's newspapers had to do with the Spanish-American War. No doubt its technology has changed society; technology often does. It has been argued that the developing use of the stirrup, which enabled a rider to carry a lance, created the system of land payments to knights and hence...
...writes amid new charges against Burchett--not only in the Hearst newspapers, which she brushes off, but also in newspapers which were harshly critical of America's presence in Vietnam, such as the New York Post. Though she alludes to the charges, she does not mention the most serious ones. The Post story reported that Burchett was well known to American prisoners of war in the north as the man who would try to wring phony confessions from them, using savage threats of force, and then doctoring their words for use in North Vietnamese propaganda. It would be a great...
...Crimson interviewed Burchett before the Post published its article, and was thus unable to ask his response. He has, however, denied the charges completely; as far as I know, they have been printed only by papers owned by Murdoch and the John Birch Society. In addition, the Hearst papers have printed charges that Burchett was a KGB agent, as I reported...
...Hearst chain of papers has recently begun an editorial campaign against Burchett, using old charges that he was once a KGB agent to discredit him. Burchett denies these charges furiously, as he did when they were first made in the '50s. The establishment press does not like Burchett's way of covering stories; for years he had trouble getting his books published, and had to go to what he calls "the unorthodox press." For 20 years, starting during the Korean war and ending in 1971, he couldn't get anything at all published in Australia...
There was a time when William Randolph Hearst, at his megalomaniac whim, could order his papers from coast to coast to lambaste Franklin D. Roosevelt on the front page, build up the career of Hearst's mistress Marion Davies on the movie page, and fill the intervening space with scandal. The Hearst papers have long since moderated their ways. No other newspaper chain nowadays commits such abuses. Instead, the damning indictment of most chain papers is that they have become flat, boring and timorous...