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During the Cold War, the United States enabled the rise of
President Syngman Rhee's repressive government in South Korea, and
yet neither the American occupation nor Rhee's growing
authoritarianism ever became particularly controversial news
stories in the United States. Could the press have done more to
scrutinize American actions in Korea? Did journalists fail to act
as an adequate check on American power? In the first archive-based
account of how American journalism responded to one of the most
significant stories in the history of American foreign relations,
Oliver Elliott shows how a group of foreign correspondents,
battling U.S. military authorities and pro-Rhee lobbyists, brought
the issue of South Korean authoritarianism into the American
political mainstream on the eve of the Korean War. However, when
war came in June 1950, the press rapidly abandoned its scrutiny of
South Korean democracy, marking a crucial moment of transition from
the era of postwar idealism to the Cold War norm of American
support for authoritarian allies.
During the Cold War, the United States enabled the rise of
President Syngman Rhee's repressive government in South Korea, and
yet neither the American occupation nor Rhee's growing
authoritarianism ever became particularly controversial news
stories in the United States. Could the press have done more to
scrutinize American actions in Korea? Did journalists fail to act
as an adequate check on American power? In the first archive-based
account of how American journalism responded to one of the most
significant stories in the history of American foreign relations,
Oliver Elliott shows how a group of foreign correspondents,
battling U.S. military authorities and pro-Rhee lobbyists, brought
the issue of South Korean authoritarianism into the American
political mainstream on the eve of the Korean War. However, when
war came in June 1950, the press rapidly abandoned its scrutiny of
South Korean democracy, marking a crucial moment of transition from
the era of postwar idealism to the Cold War norm of American
support for authoritarian allies.
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