"We Used Every Effort to be Impartial": The Complicated Response of Newspaper Publishers to Unions.
As large employers of labor and owners of businesses that conveyed information about organized labor to a wide audience, publishers were intimately connected to the labor movement during the 1930s and 1940s. Publishers such as William Randolph Hearst were condemned for controlling a press determined...
| Published in: | American Journalism Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 37 - 66 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Spring2012
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