Edward Hendrie, TIME prints Orwellian Newspeak Confession to Election Rigging Conspiracy

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…

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…