
Despatches on dictators: US reporters in 1930s Europe
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The Politics of Access and Viss Intelligence
i wonder if we can go back quickly to the idea of access and viss insight, and ask we've had a bit of a chat there about girbles and hitler. But more broadly, how were these american correspondents regarded by the regimes they were reported on? Bot they welcomedd what was the dynamic? I think one of the things that's most interesting to me is how many of those leaders are, in fact, themselves former journalists. So muslini was, the most a skilled ad manipulating the press. And even knickerbocker, who, as i said, is very suspicious, a both of the soviet union when he goes there and reports
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