Monday, March 30, 2009

You Can't Print That



I don't know about the copyright restrictions of this video but there is an option to download it here.

A short documentary of some of George Seldes' adventures as a journalist in WWI, Soviet Russia, Italy before and during the rise of Fascism, the war in Mexico, the Spanish Civil War, and Seldes' own newsletter called "in Fact".

Seldes' reporting on Spain showed that rather than a Civil War, Spain was fighting a Fascist Rebellion. In the American Press at the time, Spanish Loyalists were Red-baited in support of the Fascists forces which were also backed by Hitler and Mussolini. The Spanish Civil War proved to be a testing ground for German military tactics later in WWII. American newspapers that reported the truth about the Spanish Civil War were attacked and red-baited by just about everyone, including the Catholic Church.

Includes interviews with; Studs Terkel, I. F. Stone, Howard Zinn and George Seldes.


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