An 1899 photograph of the pressroom of the Planet, a newspaper in Richmond, Va. Everett Historical/Shutterstock.comThe internet has upended the journalism industry – and not in a good way. Over the past decade, over 100,000 journalism jobs have been shed, while advertising revenue has fallen US billion since 2004. Sponsored content is on the rise. Reporters have been suspended for fabricating aspects of their stories. And, yes, entire stories have been made up out of thin air. Not surprisingly,
On a cross-country trip in 1923 to whip up support for his reelection, Warren G. Harding looked exhausted. He was ordered to bed when he and his wife reached San Francisco. On the evening of August 2, his wife sought to cheer him up by reading a complimentary article about him in the Post.
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Health fads as we know them took shape a century ago. Wellness “experts” from Bernarr Macfadden in
Physical Culture to the Kellogg brothers gave Americans plenty of new ideas to chew on for cleaner, healthier living, even if they typically involved pricey spa retreats and newfangled diet plans. Vegetarianism was slowly gaining purchase as a way to get “back to Nature.” All the better if you could do it in a health and spirit commune upstate.
As a lifelong reporter, Samuel G. Blythe was skeptical of “food faddists and physical culturists.” In his time at the
Post, the
New York World, and