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From: Washington Monthly
Date: 19940301
Author:Kurtz, Howard

Advertising and the Democratic Press

C. Edward Baker

Princeton University Press, $24.95

By Howard Kurtz

In the early part of this century, when the Gimbel brothers owned a Philadelphia department store, one brother was arrested, charged with sodomy, and committed suicide. Yet according to Upton Sinclair's 1920 book The Brass Check, not a single Philadelphia newspaper reported the news. Such was the power of a prominent advertiser that the urge to suppress any unpleasant headlines probably came naturally.

In 1991, Dennis Washburn, a Birmingham News columnist ...

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