The book The Brass Check, a Study of American Journalism was written by author Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968 Here you can read free online of The Brass Check, a Study of American Journalism book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Brass Check, a Study of American Journalism a good or bad book?
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Lawson had received $1,773.40 in nine weeks! Old "Mother" Jones was listed at forty-two dollars a day; the actual fact being that for her work as organizer she was paid $3.57 a day — and this not including the many months which she spent in jail for refusing to leave the strike-district! The "bulletin" containing these figures was published in all the newspapers, and was mailed out over the country to the extent of hundreds of thousands of copies; and when the miners exposed the falsity of the ...statements, "Poison Ivy" postponed correcting them until the strike was lost, and until he knew that the Walsh Commission was on his trail ! Thirty-two separate "bulletins" this scoun- drel sent out over the United States, and many of them were full of just such lies as this. If you want details, you may consult two articles by George Creel in "Harper's Weekly," for November 7th and 14th, 1914. There are thousands of such press agents serving our predatory interests, but not often are we permitted to peer into their inmost souls, to watch them at their secret offices.
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