Peter Landesman Quotes
We've all seen 'Network' and 'Wag the Dog,' but we were somehow insulated by the fact that those were just movies, fictions, and we could rest easy that the Real News doesn't operate that way. Well, it does - sometimes.
Landesman, Peter. "The Tragic Farce of Gary Webb." HuffPost, 10 Oct. 2014.
He coined the term to refer to the new type of journalism that was being practiced by William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. These two men were very successful at the expense of the other newspapers who demeaned their style of journalism. See {615131} for a definition of “yellow journalism”.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Peter Landesman is an American screenwriter, film director, producer, journalist, novelist and painter. He wrote a number of cover stories for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly and others, including investigations into global arms trafficking, sex trafficking, refugee trafficking, the Rwandan genocide, and the creation and smuggling of forged and stolen art and antiquities. He also reported from the conflicts in Kosovo, Rwanda, and Pakistan and Afghanistan post-9/11.
