MENCKEN AS BOSS
MENCKEN AS BOSS
This chapter focuses on the influence a popular president like Franklin D. Roosevelt had on the press, and the danger of journalists' reliance on White House handouts and propaganda. To mitigate this, Mencken became editor of the Baltimore Evening Sun. His tireless energy and daily denunciation of FDR not only stressed out the staff, but also himself. Mencken was also concerned over stories coming out of Hitler's Berlin, and decided to go there to see for himself what exactly was going on. He was convinced that the negative stories he heard were the same kind of propaganda he witnessed during World War I.
Keywords: journalism, New Deal, Franklin D. Roosevelt, editorials, Berlin
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