This is the best brand of research -- a thorough survey of the available sources, sharp observation and an admirable style of writing. Thanks to the author. I really enjoyed this.
I’d like to make a distinction in your rolling both “journalists” and what I call “newspaper entrepreneurs” into only “journalists.” The scene of your investigations makes a perfect prairie on which to distinguish the truth-seekers from the Advocates for Local Capitalism (ALC). From the news rags I’ve read from that era, the editors/publishers/profiteers were sure-as-Hell not journalists -- an actual journalist would have to carefully and secretly collect notes; continue moving; and maybe publish a book or article from a safe space far away on either coast -- and that would further be edited in light of projected sales. Wish there was an easily discernible way to separate the ALC from the journalists – but there may have been none of the latter in the Wild Oklahoma West. Indeed, the surviving newspapers in Okieland and America-at-Large may still be operating because of ACL vaccinations.
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This is the best brand of research -- a thorough survey of the available sources, sharp observation and an admirable style of writing. Thanks to the author. I really enjoyed this.
ReplyDeleteI’d like to make a distinction in your rolling both “journalists” and what I call “newspaper entrepreneurs” into only “journalists.” The scene of your investigations makes a perfect prairie on which to distinguish the truth-seekers from the Advocates for Local Capitalism (ALC). From the news rags I’ve read from that era, the editors/publishers/profiteers were sure-as-Hell not journalists -- an actual journalist would have to carefully and secretly collect notes; continue moving; and maybe publish a book or article from a safe space far away on either coast -- and that would further be edited in light of projected sales.
ReplyDeleteWish there was an easily discernible way to separate the ALC from the journalists – but there may have been none of the latter in the Wild Oklahoma West. Indeed, the surviving newspapers in Okieland and America-at-Large may still be operating because of ACL vaccinations.
As an ex-journalist, I think you flatter journalists.
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