In his new book, Northwestern University professor Jon Marshall examines the adversarial relationship between Presidents and journalists amid periods of national crisis.
examines the adversarial relationship between Presidents and journalists amid periods of national crisis. We asked him to pick five moments when that conflict proved especially consequential.John Adams uses the newly enacted Alien and Sedition Acts to muzzle his press critics. Despite more than 100 prosecutions at the federal and state levels, the move ultimately backfires. “It was causing lots of excitement and controversy,” Marshall says, “which in the end drove up news-paper sales.
”The Woodrow Wilson administration uses new legislation outlawing expressions of disloyalty to prosecute journalists. Among those arrested are employees of a magazine that had published cartoons critical of the war effort. “It was definitely a period of great repression against the free press,” Marshall says.With some of the country’s leading papers railing against government expansion associated with the New Deal, FDR turns to a novel piece of technology—the radio.
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