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Here & NowHere & Now for November 15, 2024On "Here & Now," Zac Schultz reports on how the Wisconsin Supreme Court heard a lawsuit challenging an 1849 law that banned abortion, Eric Hovde refused to concede to Tammy Baldwin, Christopher Saldaña considers the Department of Public Instruction's 2025 budget and referendums, the DNR issued permits to Enbridge to reroute Line 5 around the Bad River reservation and Jorge Franco discusses a swing among Latino voters toward Donald Trump and mass deportation. Plus, Kathryn McGarr considers historical parallels between a second Trump administration and the mid-20th century. Listen to the entire episode of "Here & Now" for November 15, 2024. For transcripts, video, and m...2024-11-1526 min
The Last Best Hope?Presidents and the PressIn 1787, the year of the Constitutional Convention, Thomas Jefferson wrote that if he had to choose between “a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter”. Easy for him to say – but in reality, US presidents and the press have always been locked in an embrace fusing mutual respect and mistrust, cosiness and outright conflict. Both feed off each other, but who’s in charge? But who has the power in that relationship? How does it work and how has it changed? From Woodrow Wilson, the first president to hold proper pr...2024-06-0546 min
The CosmopolitanKathryn J. McGarr, "City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington" (U Chicago Press, 2022) Podcast: New Books in Communications (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Kathryn J. McGarr, "City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington" (U Chicago Press, 2022)Pub date: 2023-05-19Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationKathryn McGarr’s City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington (U Chicago Press, 2022) explores foreign policy journalism in Washington during and after World War II—a time supposedly defined by the press’s blind patriotism and groupthink. McGarr reveals, though, that D.C. report...2023-06-011h 04
Journalism HistoryEpisode 127: Responsibility vs. Objectivity in Cold War WashingtonHistorian 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/
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New Books in CommunicationsKathryn J. McGarr, "City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington" (U Chicago Press, 2022)Kathryn McGarr’s City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington (U Chicago Press, 2022) explores foreign policy journalism in Washington during and after World War II—a time supposedly defined by the press’s blind patriotism and groupthink. McGarr reveals, though, that D.C. reporters then were deeply cynical about government sources and their motives, but kept their doubts to themselves for professional, social, and ideological reasons. The alliance and rivalries among these reporters constituted a world of debts and loyalties: shared memories of wartime experiences, shared frustrations with government censorship and information programs, shared antagoni...2023-05-191h 04
NBN Book of the DayKathryn J. McGarr, "City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington" (U Chicago Press, 2022)Kathryn McGarr’s City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington (U Chicago Press, 2022) explores foreign policy journalism in Washington during and after World War II—a time supposedly defined by the press’s blind patriotism and groupthink. McGarr reveals, though, that D.C. reporters then were deeply cynical about government sources and their motives, but kept their doubts to themselves for professional, social, and ideological reasons. The alliance and rivalries among these reporters constituted a world of debts and loyalties: shared memories of wartime experiences, shared frustrations with government censorship and information programs, shared antagoni...2023-05-191h 04
New Books in JournalismKathryn J. McGarr, "City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington" (U Chicago Press, 2022)Kathryn McGarr’s City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington (U Chicago Press, 2022) explores foreign policy journalism in Washington during and after World War II—a time supposedly defined by the press’s blind patriotism and groupthink. McGarr reveals, though, that D.C. reporters then were deeply cynical about government sources and their motives, but kept their doubts to themselves for professional, social, and ideological reasons. The alliance and rivalries among these reporters constituted a world of debts and loyalties: shared memories of wartime experiences, shared frustrations with government censorship and information programs, shared antagoni...2023-05-191h 04
New Books in American PoliticsKathryn J. McGarr, "City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington" (U Chicago Press, 2022)Kathryn McGarr’s City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington (U Chicago Press, 2022) explores foreign policy journalism in Washington during and after World War II—a time supposedly defined by the press’s blind patriotism and groupthink. McGarr reveals, though, that D.C. reporters then were deeply cynical about government sources and their motives, but kept their doubts to themselves for professional, social, and ideological reasons. The alliance and rivalries among these reporters constituted a world of debts and loyalties: shared memories of wartime experiences, shared frustrations with government censorship and information programs, shared antagoni...2023-05-191h 04
New Books in National SecurityKathryn J. McGarr, "City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington" (U Chicago Press, 2022)Kathryn McGarr’s City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington (U Chicago Press, 2022) explores foreign policy journalism in Washington during and after World War II—a time supposedly defined by the press’s blind patriotism and groupthink. McGarr reveals, though, that D.C. reporters then were deeply cynical about government sources and their motives, but kept their doubts to themselves for professional, social, and ideological reasons. The alliance and rivalries among these reporters constituted a world of debts and loyalties: shared memories of wartime experiences, shared frustrations with government censorship and information programs, shared antagoni...2023-05-191h 04
New Books in American StudiesKathryn J. McGarr, "City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington" (U Chicago Press, 2022)Kathryn McGarr’s City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington (U Chicago Press, 2022) explores foreign policy journalism in Washington during and after World War II—a time supposedly defined by the press’s blind patriotism and groupthink. McGarr reveals, though, that D.C. reporters then were deeply cynical about government sources and their motives, but kept their doubts to themselves for professional, social, and ideological reasons. The alliance and rivalries among these reporters constituted a world of debts and loyalties: shared memories of wartime experiences, shared frustrations with government censorship and information programs, shared antagoni...2023-05-191h 04
The University of Chicago Press PodcastKathryn J. McGarr, "City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington" (U Chicago Press, 2022)Kathryn McGarr’s City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington (U Chicago Press, 2022) explores foreign policy journalism in Washington during and after World War II—a time supposedly defined by the press’s blind patriotism and groupthink. McGarr reveals, though, that D.C. reporters then were deeply cynical about government sources and their motives, but kept their doubts to themselves for professional, social, and ideological reasons. The alliance and rivalries among these reporters constituted a world of debts and loyalties: shared memories of wartime experiences, shared frustrations with government censorship and information programs, shared antagoni...2023-05-191h 04
Listen to New Full Audiobooks in History, The AmericasCity of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington by Kathryn J. McgarrPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652084to listen full audiobooks.
Title: City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington
Author: Kathryn J. Mcgarr
Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 11 hours 0 minutes
Release date: March 14, 2023
Genres: The Americas
Publisher's Summary:
Americans' current trust in journalists is at a dismayingly low ebb, particularly on the subject of national and international politics. It might be tempting to look back to the mid-twentieth century, when the nation's press corps was a seemingly venerable and monolithic institution that conveyed the official line from Washington with nary a glint of anti-patriotic...2023-03-1411h 00
Listen to New Full Audiobooks in History, The AmericasCity of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington by Kathryn J. McgarrPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652084 to listen full audiobooks. Title: City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington Author: Kathryn J. Mcgarr Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Americans' current trust in journalists is at a dismayingly low ebb, particularly on the subject of national and international politics. It might be tempting to look back to the mid-twentieth century, when the nation's press corps was a seemingly venerable and monolithic institution that conveyed the official line from Washington with nary a glint of...2023-03-1430 min
Grab the Top Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Language InstructionCity of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington by Kathryn J. McgarrPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652084 to listen full audiobooks. Title: City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington Author: Kathryn J. Mcgarr Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Genres: Language Instruction Publisher's Summary: Americans' current trust in journalists is at a dismayingly low ebb, particularly on the subject of national and international politics. It might be tempting to look back to the mid-twentieth century, when the nation's press corps was a seemingly venerable and monolithic institution that conveyed the official line from Washington with nary a glint of...2023-03-1430 min
Why Now? A Political Junkie PodcastEpisode 13: If I Told You, I Would Have To Kill YouOn this episode, my guest is here to help us parse the world of government secrecy—its history, practices, and dilemmas—and how the classification system undermines our democracy. Matthew Connelly is a professor of international and global history at Columbia University and the co-director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy. He’s the principal investigator of History Lab, a National Science Foundation-funded project that applies data science to the problem of preserving the public record and accelerating declassification. Out of that work came a new book, The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America’s Top Se...2023-02-1345 min
Why Now? A Political Junkie PodcastEpisode 12: All The News That's Fit To PrintToday, conservative critics condemn the so-called “liberal media” for being in cahoots with policymakers and politicians—but there was a time when that was a formal, accepted way of doing business. In her new book, City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington (University of Chicago Press, 2022), University of Wisconsin historian Kathryn J. McGarr takes us into that world—one in which journalists agreed, as McGarr explains in today’s episode, to publish government lies—but not lie for the government; to work to prevent World War III by serving as informal advisors to the powerful, an...2023-02-0642 min
Past PresentEpisode 352: Weight Loss DrugsIn this episode, Natalia, Niki, and Neil discuss the new weight loss drug, Ozempic. Support Past Present on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pastpresentpodcast Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Ozempic, an injectable used for diabetes treatment, is also hailed for its use as a diet drug and hated for its intense side effects. Neil referenced this Wall Street Journal article about the ritzy circles in which Ozempic has become popular. Niki drew on this Reuters piece about the history of weight loss drugs. In...2022-11-2238 min
Seay the Future PodcastCappy McGarrCappy McGarr is an Emmy-nominated author, a creator of the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize, the National Award for Humor, and The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize.McGarr serves on the boards of The Foundation for the National Archives and The Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He serves on The Better Angels Board of Directors, filmmaker Ken Burns’ advisory board. McGarr has chaired a White House Fellows Regional Panel in 2012 and 2013 and has served as a panelist from 2009 to 2013.McGarr was appointed by...2022-08-091h 10
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