Program re Al Capone, especially illuminating were connections between Capone and the rise of popular culture mass media.
Especially good was the discussion of the relationship between crime and media coverage, both print, and the development of motion pictures, the Hays Code, etc.
The old NYT comment, re distinction between sensationalism in tabloids versus publication of the same story in the NYT:
'...when it's published there, it's smut, when we publish it, it's sociology.'
The Drew Pearson fallacy writ large there.
NYT REUTERS, Governor Cuomo's corruption commission, the Moreland Commission, different day, same issues, 'I control it.'
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