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George Seldes (November 16, 1890 – July 2, 1995) was an influential American (A native or inhabitant of the United States) investigative journalist and media critic.
Seldes was born in Alliance, New Jersey (A Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies).
Seldes himself believed that the suppression of the interview proved to be tragic.
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 George Seldes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Seldes (November 16, 1890 – July 2, 1995) was an influential American investigative journalist and media critic.
Seldes and the others were accused of breaking the Armistice and were court martialed.
In 1927, the Chicago Tribune sent Seldes to Mexico but his articles criticizing American corporations concerning their use of that country's mineral rights were not well received.
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 Encyclopedia: George Seldes
Born in 1890, George Seldes was a young reporter in Europe at the close of World War I. When Armistice Day came, he broke ranks with the obedient press corps and drove behind the lines of retreating German troops.
Seldes came to believe that the interview, if published, "would have destroyed the main planks of the platform on which Hitler rose to power." But the reporters involved "did not think it worthwhile to give up our number-one positions in journalism" by disobeying military censors "in order to be free to publish."
George Seldes and his wife, Helen, covered the war between Franco's fascists and the coalition of loyalists supporting the elected Spanish government.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/George-Seldes   (316 words)

  
 The Consortium
Seldes was not-so-politely "asked to leave" after he and three other reporters were discovered smuggling stories out of the country in the diplomatic mailbag.
Seldes goes on to document the many ways the press indeed failed to "meet its responsibilities" and the reasons for the failure: the economic interests of the publishers, their political leanings (especially during the politically-polarized New Deal era), their own labor relations issues, etc.
Seldes was decades ahead of his colleagues in documenting the health hazards of cigarettes (as early as 1938), the deceptive promotional practices of the tobacco companies, and the lack of coverage of these issues in the pages of the mainstream press -- which accepted millions every year in cigarette advertising.
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 The Public Eye : Website of Political Research Associates
Seldes retired in 1950 but was rediscovered in the 1980's after he appeared as one of the voices from the past vignettes in the film "Reds." His autobiography "Witness to a Century" was published in 1987 and became a bestseller.
Seldes family hopes that persons who wish to commemorate George's legacy support these groups, and a specific fund in his name will be established this fall by those he influenced.
George combined a crusty intellect with a soft heart, and until recently would entertain visitors to his Vermont hillside home with stories of his exploits punctuated by sips from his trademark martini.
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 A Brief Biography of George Seldes
Seldes was one of a group of four journalists who snuck into Germany at the end of World War I to get an exclusive interview with Field Marshall Paul von Hindenburg, the supreme commander of the German Army.
Seldes, who was in Russia to cover the American Relief Administration's efforts to aid famine victims, still remembers the day when Lenin had to talk his way past the guards to address the Third International.
Seldes was sent to Mexico in 1927, when the United States came close to invading that country when the Mexican government threatened to take back the mineral rights from the American corporations that stole them from the Mexican people.
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 George Seldes: Tell the Truth and Run   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Eighty years a newspaperman, Seldes was a noted foreign correspondent who became America's most important press critic.
Seldes at age 98 is the centerpiece of the film: remarkably engaging,witty and still impassioned about his ideas and ideals.
Witness to a Century - George Seldes' autobiography
brasscheck.com /seldes   (319 words)

  
 Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As he wrote in the title of his recent book, George Seldes (1890-1995) was truly an "eyewitness to a century." This gadfly journalist took on dictators like Hitler, Franco, Mussolini, Lenin; the "lords of the press" who traded journalistic integrity for advertising space; cigarette companies and McCarthy and his fellow anti-communists.
Seldes fought his battles with words, and he never lost his essential optimism that Americans would do what was right once the truth was revealed.
Seldes recalls his journalistic beginnings in Pittsburgh, a sojourn in revolutionary Russia, his run-ins with Mussolini, adventures in covering the Spanish Civil War, and his role as an increasingly lonely critic of the press.
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 AlterNet: SOLOMON: Ignored Oscar Film Sets Inspiring Example
George Seldes would have chuckled at the media silence that greeted the Oscar nomination for a movie about him.
Most reporters, Seldes observed, "know from contact with the great minds of the press lords or from the simple deduction that the bosses are in big business and the news must be slanted accordingly, or from the general intangible atmosphere which prevails everywhere, what they can do and what they must never do."
The death of George Seldes -- on July 2, 1995, at the age of 104 -- underscored the major media's lack of interest in legacies of journalistic courage.
www.alternet.org /columnists/story/6102   (911 words)

  
 George Seldes
George Seldes was born in Alliance, New Jersey, on 16th November, 1890.
Seldes returned to Europe but found that increasingly his work was being censored to fit the political views of the newspaper's owner,
George Seldes: The baseball scores are always correct (except for a typographical error now and then).
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAseldes.htm   (2574 words)

  
 HRWIFF: Film Archive - Tell the Truth and Run   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Seldes was a noted foreign correspondent in World War I and in the 1920s in Europe.
Seldes became a pariah in his own profession, ostracized and marginalized by the mainstream press.
At age 98, Seldes is the centerpiece of the film.
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 Alibris: George Seldes
Upon its publication, George Seldess The Great Thoughts instantly took its place as a classic--a treasure house of the seminal ideas that have shaped the intellectual history of the world down through the ages.
Seldes, a pivotal figure in the history of American journalism and a tireless researcher, spent the better part of his extraordinary...
by Seldes, George, and Seldes, Helen Larkin Wiesman
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 Amazon.ca: Great Thoughts, Revised and Updated: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The story behind Seldes' gathering up these quotes and ideas, malaprops and famous last words are as interesting as the quotes themselves.
Seldes could not easily part with some of the Freud citations.
I really like the quotes Seldes selected and this is one of the 30 or 40 books (from among the 400+ quote books I own) I use most (in the subject listed format) to dig up quotes for topics I am researching.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0345404289   (1024 words)

  
 Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press
The Academy-Award-nominated Tell The Truth and Run, is the dramatic story of muckraking journalist George Seldes, and a piercing look at censorship and suppression in America's news media.
Seldes at age 98 is the centerpiece of the film: remarkably engaging, witty and still impassioned about his ideas and ideals.
"George Seldes was determined, in the best American tradition, to shake up the establishment, and 'Tell the Truth and Run' draws a strong and endearing portrait of this stormy petrel of American journalism."
www.newday.com /films/Tell_the_Truth_and_Run.html   (444 words)

  
 Is the Entire Press Corrupt?
Editor's Note: George Seldes is one of the premier journalists and press critics of the 20th Century.
A member of FAIR's advisory board, Seldes at 103 years of age is still raising hell.
George Washington, which denounced him as everything from a traitor to a drunkard, was not a corrupt press.
www.fair.org /extra/9411/george-seldes.html   (940 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press : Plot
Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press, nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1997, tells the story of the long and remarkable career of reporter and press critic George Seldes.
Rick Goldsmith uses archival footage, still photos, and interviews with those who've known or have been influenced by Seldes (including Ralph Nader, Nat Hentoff, Victor Navasky, and Seldes' niece, actress Marian Seldes) to tell the story.
Seldes himself provides a wealth of information and insight about his life for the film, made when the man was a remarkably lucid and energetic 98 years old.
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 Tell the Truth and Run
Although we can only speculate why the Times' editors appeared to dislike Judi Bari, Seldes was told by the managing editor that it was their policy "never to mention my newsletter or my books or my name" after he testified against the newspaper in a 1934 labor suit.
It's Academy Award-time, and up for an Oscar this year was a critically-praised documentary, "Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press," by independent Berkeley filmmaker Rick Goldsmith.
George Seldes was an early and fearless rider of a horse that is bucking still.
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 S2 Edgar Rice Burroughs Library
The Chicago Tribune sent Seldes to Mexico in 1927 but his articles criticizing American corporations concerning their use of the country's mineral rights, were not always published by the newspaper.
George Seldes died on 2nd July, 1995, aged 104.
George Seldes (1890-1995) Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary, Tell the Truth and Run, the dramatic story of muckraking journalist George Seldes (1890-1995), is a piercing examination of American journalism.
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 Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press (1996)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
from Oakland CA George Seldes was a journalist and leftist gadfly from the 1920s through the 1950s.
Tell the Truth and Run is not only the story of Seldes struggle to inform, it's also the story of American journalism and its unholy marriage with corporate America.
The most remarkable segment involves his efforts, starting in 1942(!), to report the results of Johns Hopkins research that showed the dangers of cigarette smoking--news that the Surgeon General apparently ignored for 20 years.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0117873   (280 words)

  
 Random House | Books | Great Thoughts, Revised and Updated by George Seldes
USA Today praised the first edition of The Great Thoughts as "a browser's delight."  The work of a lifetime, brought up-to-date to reflect the global upheaval of the past decade, The Great Thoughts stands alone as an enduring achievement and an invaluable resource.
George Seldes was one of the great muckraking journalists and the author of twenty books, including Witness to a Century.  He began his career as a cub reporter for The Pittsburgh Leader, rose to international correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, and founded his own newspaper, dedicated to the truth.  
George Seldes died at the age of 104 in July 1995.
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 George Seldes on papal hostility toward freedom of the press.
George Seldes on papal hostility toward freedom of the press.
Examines 150 years of uninterrupted papal hostility toward freedom of the press.
Discusses techniques used to "bridle" the press and the conclusion of George Seldes, acknowledged dean of investigative reporters, that on "Catholic issues" there is no free press.
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 Random House | Authors | George Seldes
George Seldes was one of the great muckraking journalists and the author of twenty books, including Witness to a Century.
He began his career as a cub reporter for The Pittsburgh Leader, rose to international correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, and founded his own newspaper, dedicated to the truth.
Upon its publication, George Seldes's The Great Thoughts instantly took its place as a classic--a treasure house of the seminal ideas that have shaped the intellectual history of the world down through the ages.  Seldes, a pivotal figure in the history of American journalism and a tireless researcher, spent the better part...
www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=27626   (146 words)

  
 Little-Known U.S. Document - The Early America Review, Summer 1997
Officially called the "Treaty of peace and friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli, of Barbary," most refer to it as simply the Treaty of Tripoli.
The preliminary treaty began with a signing on 4 November, 1796 (the end of George Washington's last term as president).
Joel Barlow, the American diplomat served as counsel to Algiers and held responsibility for the treaty negotiations.
www.earlyamerica.com /review/summer97/secular.html   (3843 words)

  
 Seldes - Facing the Corporate Roots of American Fascism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Seldes - Facing the Corporate Roots of American Fascism
Seldes was a foreign correspondent during WWI and WWII.
Seldes also wrote 20 books including: You Can’t Print That!
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 Moviefone: Tell The Truth & Run: George Seldes & The American Press Movie: MAIN
Moviefone: Tell The Truth & Run: George Seldes & The American Press Movie: MAIN
Tell The Truth & Run: George Seldes & The American Press
Owen Wilson causes havoc and hilarity when he moves in with newlyweds.
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 Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press - Zap2it.com - Movie Reviews, Theaters, Trailers, Times ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press - Zap2it.com - Movie Reviews, Theaters, Trailers, Times and More
Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press - Movie Profile
Premise of "Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press"
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 Find in a Library: The George Seldes reader
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 The U.S. NOT founded upon Christianity
Click here to see the actual article 11 of the Treaty
Paul F. Boller, Jr., "George Washington and Religion," Southern Methodist University Press: Dallas, 1963, pp.
George Seldes, "The Great Quotations," Pocket Books, New York, 1967, p.
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 1941-1950: List of Tobacco Articles by George Seldes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
UPDATE: Be sure to check out Rick Goldsmith's film on Seldes, "Take the Money and Run."
Rick has presented Seldes' tobacco writings in context at: http://www.brasscheck.com/seldes/tobac.html
Other material © 1995-2005 Tobacco.org, may be reprinted in non-commercial venues with appropriate attribution.
www.tobacco.org /resources/history/seldes.html   (3831 words)

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