While contempt for news organizations is intense in the wake of Trump, archived hate mail to reporters shows that even in the 1950s—supposedly the height of public trust in journalism—some Americans always despised the press
You don’t have to go to a Donald Trump rally to understand how much public abuse reporters receive, both online and in real life. Hostility toward the press is certainly more visible in the U.S. today than ever, with polls showing declining trust in newspapers, TV and radio. But a pernicious hatred toward those who bring us the news has deep roots, largely hidden in the personal archives of reporters.
In a recent study, I looked at themes of antisemitism, anti-elitism and “America First” ideology in the archived mail of two radio reporters, Eric Sevareid of CBS and Elmer Davis of ABC. After digitizing about 900 letters from 1949 to 1953 from their files at the Library of Congress, I found some tropes of media hatred surprisingly unchanged over the last 70 years.
And there was a lot of it. Sending physical mail may seem like a barrier to us today, but it was fairly easy in 1951, when a card simply addressed to “Eric Sevareid, Radio Commentator, Washington, D.C.,” would find its way to his desk. Not all of the negative mail was crank mail, which is not surprising. Historians including Lisa McGirr and Kim Phillips-Fein have shown that grassroots conservatism has a long history in the 20th century, rooted in specific foreign policy and economic beliefs.
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