Edward Hendrie On February 4, 2021, Time Magazine published an article by Molly Ball titled The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election. The article is a window into a conspiracy to rig the election. The article is full of spin, but that spin requires a starting point, and that starting point is the revelation of a conspiracy to rig the election to ensure a win for Joe Biden. The most fascinating thing about the article is that the writer calls those who say that there was a…
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James Tracy, JFK, MASS MEDIA, AND THE ORIGINS OF “CONSPIRACY THEORY”
NOVEMBER 22, 2018 MHB Prefatory Note on Censorship in Academe This study was written in 2013-14 as part of my academic research as Associate Professor of Media Studies at Florida Atlantic University. I have had numerous papers addressing news coverage of historical events published in academic journals over the past two decades. However, this was the first attempt to offer a scholarly treatment of a research object related to a conspiracy–how the news media “framed” New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison’s JFK assassination inquiry. When I presented the paper at the…