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During the 1930s newspaper, publisher William Randolph Hearst was among the most powerful and influential anticommunists in the United States. Anticommunism sold newspapers. Hearst's New York American frequently asked questions such as "What will deter this disloyal [Communist] ‘party’ from making EVERY SCHOOLHOUSE IN THE COUNTRY a center of revolutionary Communist propaganda?" Hearst was flamboyant and indiscriminate in charging communist subversion, and teachers were a favorite target. Hearst newspaper reporters would pose as radical students to get interviews with supposedly left-wing teachers and then quote these teachers out of context. When these reporters in disguise tried such tactics at the Teachers College of Columbia University, canny educators such as George S. Counts thwarted Hearst by having verbatim transcripts made of their interviews with the "students." The methods of Hearst's reporters were deplored by many educators and journalists...
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