Hersh’s story was published by Dispatch, a small news agency with a tiny staff, and then picked up nationally. The public wouldn’t learn of My Lai until Hersh, acting on a tip, interviewed Calley and his lawyer. was court martialed in September 1969 for his role. However, due to pressure on the chain-of-command from a soldier in the infantry company involved, Lieutenant William Calley, Jr. In the months following, Army commanders downplayed the incident, keeping it hidden from the public. Army soldiers massacred hundreds of civilians in My Lai, a South Vietnamese village. New York Times reporter Seymour Hersh talks on the telephone at his New York Times Washington Bureau office June 14, 1972. 1969: Seymour Hersh exposes the My Lai massacre and cover-up
“The job of the reporters in Vietnam,” Halberstam wrote in 1965, “was to report the news, whether or not the news was good for America.” In 1964, Halberstam earned a Pulitzer Prize for his Vietnam reporting. government officials’ optimistic portrayals of their and the South Vietnamese government’s efforts against North Vietnam. Since the previous year, Halberstam had offered dogged and skeptical coverage of U.S. Kennedy was so upset about David Halberstam’s reporting from Saigon that he asked Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, to transfer Halberstam out of Vietnam. Reporters David Halberstam (l) of the New York Times, AP Saigon correspondent Malcolm Brown (c) and Neil Sheehan of UPI chat beside a helicopter in Vietnam. 1962-64: David Halberstam calls foul on the U.S. Marder later opened the London bureau of the The Post and, after his retirement, helped create the Nieman Watchdog Project. Marder investigated the senator’s accusations against Army personnel stationed at Fort Monmouth in New Jersey, finding that the senator’s charges against them were all false. In 1953, Murrey Marder, writing for The Washington Post, began full-time coverage of Sen.
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After his re-election in 1952, McCarthy conducted a series of hearings on the matter and implicated Army personnel in espionage. Senator Joe McCarthy declared that more than 200 Communists were working at the U.S. Joseph McCarthy chats with his attorney Roy Cohn during Senate Subcommittee hearings on the McCarthy-Army dispute. Sinclair later focused on American journalism itself, calling attention in 1920 to the practice of “yellow journalism” in his book The Brass Check. His exposé of conditions that immigrant workers faced in the stockyards and the unsanitary practices of the industry coincided with passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906. Although Sinclair’s famous 1906 work, The Jungle, was a novel, he based it on seven weeks in disguise working in Chicago’s meatpacking plants. (Wikimedia Commons)Ĭhicago was America’s center of meat processing and packing around the turn of the century in 1900. 1906: Upton Sinclair exposes conditions in Chicago’s meatpacking plantsĬhicago’s Union stockyards cattle pens c. Ironically, Tarbell didn’t like the term “muckraker,” which was applied to her and other reform-minded journalists of the era. Supreme Court found the company to be in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, causing its breakup. The series was published in book form in 1904, and in 1911 the U.S. Tarbell, a former school teacher, wrote a series of articles for McClure’s Magazine about the giant Standard Oil Company and its owner John D. The progressive era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was a time of social activism as Americans and their president, Theodore Roosevelt, fought corruption and monopolistic practices in government and industry. 1 in Cleveland, Ohio, 1899 (Wikimedia Commons) As well, this investigative journalism is but one facet of the vital profession that reports the news. It also focuses on print journalism, though many great episodes of the form have appeared on television. It is neither a top ten list nor a ranking of any sort many well-qualified media outlets have assembled their own excellent lists.
Listed here (and in the Essay) are ten noteworthy moments in U.S. Calling journalism “the lifeblood of a free, democratic society,” Kaiser recalls a “golden era of journalism” before declining budgets and profits cut into news reporting, including investigative journalism. In the latest Brookings Essay, Robert Kaiser, a former reporter and managing editor of The Washington Post, examines the digital revolution that has forever changed American journalism, and not for the better. Since the late 19th century, American journalists have used their craft to call government and corporations to account for wrongdoing, secret practices, and even corruption, often sparking public outcry and reform.
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