A. Brad Schwartz
@abradschwartz.bsky.social
Historian of Media, Fake News, and Propaganda. Author/Co-Author of BROADCAST HYSTERIA; SCARFACE AND THE UNTOUCHABLE; ELIOT NESS AND THE MAD BUTCHER. Michigan Wolverine with a Princeton PhD.
Back in February, I wrote a piece for TIME’s “Made By History” about how this sort of journalistic malpractice not only fueled McCarthyism, but arguably caused it:
time.com/7213586/medi...
time.com/7213586/medi...
time.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Back in February, I wrote a piece for TIME’s “Made By History” about how this sort of journalistic malpractice not only fueled McCarthyism, but arguably caused it:
time.com/7213586/medi...
time.com/7213586/medi...
The really infuriating thing is that some journalists realized, as early as mid-1950, how they were helping McCarthy, unwillingly or otherwise.
But despite all the writing on this subject, then and since, the profession still hasn’t learned this basic lesson.
But despite all the writing on this subject, then and since, the profession still hasn’t learned this basic lesson.
November 24, 2025 at 10:55 PM
The really infuriating thing is that some journalists realized, as early as mid-1950, how they were helping McCarthy, unwillingly or otherwise.
But despite all the writing on this subject, then and since, the profession still hasn’t learned this basic lesson.
But despite all the writing on this subject, then and since, the profession still hasn’t learned this basic lesson.
And at the same time, Paddy Chayefsky knew *exactly* where we were headed…
November 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
And at the same time, Paddy Chayefsky knew *exactly* where we were headed…
This film is on a constant loop in my head.
November 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
This film is on a constant loop in my head.
That archive, incidentally, is now online and accessible to all here: quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wow/
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November 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
That archive, incidentally, is now online and accessible to all here: quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wow/
Congrats! I will never forget the day my first book went out into the wild. Enjoy it!
a black and white photo of a man standing in front of a sign that says `` you are welcome '' .
Alt: a black and white photo of a man standing in front of a sign that says `` you are welcome '' .
media.tenor.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Congrats! I will never forget the day my first book went out into the wild. Enjoy it!
The event I attended was for a book that uses the Edmund Fitzgerald tragedy as a metaphor for the effects of such deregulation on American workers:
paw.princeton.edu/new-books/wr...
paw.princeton.edu/new-books/wr...
Wrecked
paw.princeton.edu
November 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The event I attended was for a book that uses the Edmund Fitzgerald tragedy as a metaphor for the effects of such deregulation on American workers:
paw.princeton.edu/new-books/wr...
paw.princeton.edu/new-books/wr...
