The Price of Truth: The Journalist Who Defied Military Censors to Report the Fall of Nazi Germany

Author:   Richard Fine
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
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9781501765940


Pages:   312
Publication Date:   15 April 2023
Format:   Hardback
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The Price of Truth: The Journalist Who Defied Military Censors to Report the Fall of Nazi Germany


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"In The Price of Truth, Richard Fine recounts the intense drama surrounding the German surrender at the end of World War II and the veteran Associated Press journalist Edward Kennedy's controversial scoop. On May 7, 1945, Kennedy bypassed military censorship to be the first to break the news of the Nazi surrender executed in Reims, France. Both the practice and the public perception of wartime reporting would never be the same. While, at the behest of Soviet leaders, Allied authorities prohibited release of the story, Kennedy stuck to his journalistic principles and refused to manage information he believed the world had a right to know. No action by an American correspondent during the war proved more controversial. The Paris press corps was furious at what it took to be Kennedy's unethical betrayal; military authorities threatened court-martial before expelling him from Europe. Kennedy defended himself, insisting the news was being withheld for suspect political reasons unrelated to military security. After prolonged national debate, when the dust settled, Kennedy's career was in ruins. This story of Kennedy's surrender dispatch and the meddling by Allied Command, which was already being called a fiasco in May 1945, revises what we know about media-military relations. Discarding ""Good War"" nostalgia, Fine challenges the accepted view that relations between the media and the military were amicable during World War II and only later ran off the rails during the Vietnam War. The Price of Truth reveals one of the earliest chapters of tension between reporters committed to informing the public and generals tasked with managing a war."

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Author:   Richard Fine
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Cornell University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9781501765940


ISBN 10:   1501765949
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   15 April 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Fine presents a meticulous examination of the fraught relationship between the military and the media during World War II. A fresh contribution to the history of journalism. * Kirkus Review *


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Richard Fine is Professor Emeritus in the English Department at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of West of Eden and James M. Cain and the American Authors' Authority.

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