Monday, November 17, 2008

A Variation on the "Kane" Mutiny


The Toronto Star's Bruce Demara interviews Kenneth Whyte concerning his biography chronicling the early years of media tycoon William Randolph Hearst: "It was a heroic fight that Hearst led . . . and should be looked at as one of the great moments in journalism history rather than dismissed as this horrible episode in which Hearst mindlessly led a country to war. That just bears no relation to the facts," observes Whyte, cutting to the heart of the Hearst matter insofar as "the truth" concerning Cuba and the Spanish-Civil War comes into play by the factual light of day.

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