Thomas Ince and the Hearst "Coverup" (Fake News: Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 9)
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Filmmaking in the 20th Century
In's last act as a progressive film maker was producing her reputation, a take down of yellow journalism through the story of a young woman who has her reputation sullied unfairly by a scoop hungry reporter. The film featured a misogenistic newspaper tycoon who hides behind the free market to justify printing distortions and lies that ruin lives. Her reputation was perceived to be, as one review put it, propaganda against the newspaper profession. But while it was in release, ine was beginning negotiations with a newspaper man oon well paper seemed very much like the yellow journalism peddling magnet in the movie,. inc was hoping this newspaper tycoon would also do the right thing. But he didn't get
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