![]() ![]() It gave the postmaster general the power to declare a publication un-mailable. This happened under the Espionage Act, which was passed soon after the US entered the war. This was before radio, before TV, before the internet, so print was the way you reached people. ![]() The US had severe press censorship for four years and forced some 75 newspapers and magazines to cease publishing. (Why during ww1 Special interest activate and make otherwise horrifying events readable. Trump was always railing against the media, “the press is the enemy of the people.” But Woodrow Wilson, who was president of the United States in this period, did one better he shut them down. Literally just read a whole-ass book about this happening during ww1. ![]() For one thing, there was something Trump would have liked to do, but wasn’t able: to shut up dissenting media. It was reflected in several ways that have been unparalleled by anything since then, including even the nasty stuff that happened under Trump. First, the US entering the war, then the Russian Revolution, set off this period of hysteria in the United States. That was before the January 6th insurrection, which I think maybe puts the Trump hysteria a little bit ahead.ĪDAM HOCHSCHILD: No, I think I would still award the prize for hysteria and violence to the 1917 to ’21 period. METTA SPENCER: I was really surprised couple of years ago when in a conversation you said that that period was worse than the Trump period. ![]()
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