The First Modern Victim of Fake News Was a Socialist
A ‘JUNGLE’ OUT THEREA new film about ’30s Hollywood reminds us of the first truly modern campaign—whose target was California gubernatorial candidate Upton Sinclair.
When America Killed 90,000 People for No Good Reason
SLAUGHTERHOUSE 45A bad luck target, Nagasaki was the first and so far the only victim of automated atomic warfare.
The Hiroshima Cover-Up Began in the Nuclear Era’s First Hour
‘A RATHER PLEASANT WAY TO DIE’After the bomb dropped 75 years ago, U.S. officials took pains to spin and censor the press, and control the atomic narrative, to this day.
Truman Didn’t Want to Read About What He’d Done to Hiroshima
‘JUST MAKES ME MAD’The story in The New Yorker exposed many Americans to what the atomic bomb had done — but the commander in chief didn’t appear interested.
When Ayn Rand’s ‘Top Secret’ Atomic Bomb Movie Lost Its Way
HOLLYWOOD BOMBAfter Hiroshima and Nagasaki, at least two Hollywood studios planned movies about the atomic bomb. One was about its horrors. Ayn Rand’s? Not so much.
When Journalists Decried JFK’s ‘Lies’ and Fake News Cries
‘Truly Sinister’‘The president has been listening to a few advisers who have the scornful idea that it’s proper the press speak only when spoken to, or reports the news with “one-sided fairness.”’
When Hollywood Built Its Own Berlin Wall
REAL OR FAKEWhen East Germans began tunneling under the newly built Berlin Wall in 1961, Hollywood muscled in with on-location filming even as tunnelers worked beneath them.