Another example of left wing propaganda

[whitehall]

I like the Travel Channel's production of "mysteries at the monument" which is billed as a "reality documentary". It is often an entertaining look at true accounts of historical events and figures not often discussed. Today they had a story about author Upton Sinclair's campaign for Ca. governor in 1934. The documentary featured the usual blather about the incumbent republican governor supported by yada yada, bankers and the rich but virtually nothing about Sinclair's politics other than the fact that he was a "progressive". The documentary claimed that Sinclair was about to win by a landslide but was defeated as a result of unfair newsreels shown in theaters allegedly claiming that "the homeless would flock to California" if Sinclair was elected. The documentary never mentioned Sinclair being an avowed socialist and his previous bid for congress on the socialist ticket. The notion that a couple of newsreels in theaters at the height of the depression when few people could afford to go to the movies turned the tables on Sinclair's otherwise successful candidacy is ludicrous. There is no evidence that Sinclair was ever ahead in the campaign. The left wing propaganda has become so ingrained in the media that most republicans expect slander in every venue and the media doesn't even think it is important to include important political facts in an alleged documentary about politics.

 

[ClosedCaption]

Wow that was a waste. Great job fact finding and presenting your argument

 

[whitehall]

It was the lame comment that "the unemployed would flock to Ca" that caught my attention. In a fight for the governor of Ca in 1934 It didn't make sense that that the newsreel media's influence at the time would make such a difference in a governor election. It was easy to find that the alleged movie theater newsreels didn't threaten the "unemployed flocking to Ca" but they might have implicated Sinclair in a socialist agenda.The fact that the program chose not to include the word "socialism" when is was so important to Sinclair is an example of dishonesty in the most basic of information sources.

 

[Blackrook]

The problem with that theory is that during the Depression, people flocked to the movies.

Historical Context: Movies in the Great Depression

 

[whitehall]

The fact that "Hollywood was hit hard by the depression" doesn't square with Carlos Stevens claim that "Americans went compulsively to the Movies". It's one of those things that seems like it should have happened but didn't. The sugar ration line was a lot longer than the movie line.