Speaking of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Just listened to another interesting story (this time from yesterday’s Democracy Now broadcast) about William Laurence, a correspondent who won a pulitzer prize at the time for his coverage of the atomic bombings, which was considered authoritative at the time. Turns out that at when he was writing these articles, employed by the New York Times, he was simultaneously on the payroll of the US war department, essentially writing propoganda pieces in the NYT.

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