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A. Brad Schwartz
A. Brad Schwartz is a doctoral candidate in American history at Princeton University and the author of
Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News
. He is writing a biography of Edward R. Murrow.
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March 8, 2024
A. Brad Schwartz
Why We Never Got a “Murrow Moment” With Trump
The days are long gone when a single journalist could fatally wound an American demagogue. But that’s not what actually happened with Murrow’s famous broadcast on Senator Joe McCarthy.
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