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From: Journal of International Affairs
Date: 19930622
Author:Nelson, Anne

Arthur Lubow New York: Scribners, 1992 438 pp.

In 1911, Richard Harding Davis, the most celebrated American journalist of his day, wrote an article entitled, "The Passing of the War Correspondent," which looked back on his career. In it he mused: "The day [the journalist's] cable from Cuba to New York was in an hour relayed to Madrid, the war correspondent received his death sentence, and six years later the japanese buried him." The immediate causes of Davis's complaints were the impact of international telegraph communications during the Spanish-American War and the ...

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