ARE YOU EXPERIENCING SHOCK AND AWE OVER WHAT’S HAPPENING TO AMERICA?
Have five corporate media giants taken control over most of what we see, hear and read?
Explore the spectre that is haunting journalism…
A vivid reading experience: Stephen Fleischman’s “The Reporter”—a Novel – a Network News reporter caught in the crossfire of the “war on drugs”.
“A Red in the House: The Unauthorized Memoir of S. E. Fleischman”
…to understand who this Fleischman fellow is, with the tough, brilliant commentaries on various issues in CounterPunch and elsewhere… A Red in the House gives us what we need to know: he's 88 years old and tough as ever. He is also a veteran of the very top levels of television news during the 1950s and 1960s. In short, he's a sui generis radical.
-- Paul Buhle.
A documentary on Jimmy Hoffa that he produced for ABC clearly demonstrates a kind of savvy that can only come from experience in the trenches of American radicalism. When Fleischman's generation was purged from the arena of American popular culture, the main victim -- after the blacklistees themselves -- was the American public, which was deprived of its keen insights
--Louis Proyect
